Circle of Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
Hercules and Antaeus: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book IX, 183-84
7 7/8 x 9 1/16 inches (199 x 230 mm)
Black chalk, with red chalk, black wash, znd opaque white, on paper; framing line in black ink on blue board on which drawing is laid down; one-inch strip added to the paper at right edge before the drawing was executed.
I, 234c
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through mount.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered at lower right corner, in brown ink, "435"; on verso of mount, in graphite, "992".
Associated names
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphosis.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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. 157, no. 325, repr.
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