Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
Meeting of Abraham and Melchisedek; Four Other Biblical Figures
ca. 1595
7 13/16 x 5 3/16 inches (199 x 132 mm)
Pen and brown ink on paper.
1984.47
Gift of Otto Manley.
Notes
Watermark: fragment, lower tip of fleur-de-lis inscribed in a circle (cf. Heawood 1629: Rome 1602).
Copied after Tobias Stimmer, "Neue Künstliche Figuren Biblischer Historien", Basel, 1576, unpaginated: "Genes. XIII. Melchisedech speiset und segenet Abraham; Genes. XVIII. Abrams Gastfreihait wol belonet; III. Reg. X. Der weisest Richter auf dem schönsten stul; III. Reg. X. II. Paral. IX. Die Weisen besuchen ainander".
Copied after Tobias Stimmer, "Neue Künstliche Figuren Biblischer Historien", Basel, 1576, unpaginated: "Genes. XIII. Melchisedech speiset und segenet Abraham; Genes. XVIII. Abrams Gastfreihait wol belonet; III. Reg. X. Der weisest Richter auf dem schönsten stul; III. Reg. X. II. Paral. IX. Die Weisen besuchen ainander".
Associated names
Stimmer, Tobias, 1539-1584, Copy after.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Ezekiel, Victor, former owner.
Koblitz, Baron, former owner.
Schilling, Edmund, 1888-1974, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Ezekiel, Victor, former owner.
Koblitz, Baron, former owner.
Schilling, Edmund, 1888-1974, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.
Bibliography
Tuinen, Ilona van. Power and Grace : Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens. New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2018, page 11, fig. 1 (repr.)
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. 137, no. 295.
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. 137, no. 295.
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