Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
Study of a Sleeping Lion
ca. 1614-1615
9 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches (250 x 420 mm)
Black chalk, with white chalk, on light gray paper; traces of framing line in brown ink.
1977.41
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows, with the special assistance of a number of Fellows and Trustees in honor of Felice Stampfle.
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Watermark: none.
Drawing is a study related to the painting "Daniel in the Lions' Den" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (inv. 1965.13.1) and "Saint Jerome" at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (Gal.-Nr. 955).
Drawing is a study related to the painting "Daniel in the Lions' Den" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (inv. 1965.13.1) and "Saint Jerome" at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (Gal.-Nr. 955).
Associated names
Mayor, William, 1826-1892, former owner.
Oppé, A. P. (Adolf Paul), 1878-1957, former owner.
Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942, former owner.
Oppé, A. P. (Adolf Paul), 1878-1957, former owner.
Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942, 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. 143-144, no. 307, repr. (as Rubens)
Dervaux, Isabelle. Drawing connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the old masters. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2007, p. 23, 26 (repr.)
Dervaux, Isabelle. Drawing connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the old masters. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2007, p. 23, 26 (repr.)
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