Netherlandish School
16th century
Venus, with Cupid, Spied Upon by a Satyr
6 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches (155 x 197 mm)
Pen and brown ink, blue wash, lead white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on blue laid paper.
1981.38
Bequest of Mrs. Ernest Ash.
Notes
Watermark: Indecipherable, possibly circle with something inside. Watermark, beta radiograph.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed (by the artist?) at upper center, in brown ink, "ano 92". On verso, in graphite, "150".
Associated names
Anonymous, German School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Glaser, Curt, 1879-1943, former owner.
Ash, Ernest, Mrs., former owner.
Glaser, Curt, 1879-1943, former owner.
Ash, Ernest, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 16, no. 27, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 261-62 (German School)
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 261-62 (German School)
Classification
Century Drawings
School
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