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Death and a Man Struggling for a Bone

Aert van Ort
ca. 1470-ca. 1540

Death and a Man Struggling for a Bone

trimmed: 4 5/8 x 8 1/8 inches (117 x 206 mm), oval, irregular
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk; extraneous smudges of black and red chalk; on paper.
I, 253

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Inscriptions/Markings
Lettered at far right on casket, in dark brown ink, "L".
Watermark: Hand with quatrefoil (cf. Briquet 11423, 11463, etc.).
Associated names
Lucas, van Leyden, 1494-1533, Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, German School, 15th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, German School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Anonymous, Flemish School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, 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. 50, no. 81, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 253, repr. (German School)
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Century Drawings
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