Retouched by Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
The Holy Family with Mary and Martha
11 7/16 x 7 7/8 inches (290 x 200 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, with extensive corrections in gray-white oil paint, on paper; traces of old framing line in brown ink.
III, 135
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible.
Drawing by Dürer's oldest disciple Hans Suess von Kulmbach, retouched by Rubens.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, German School, early 16th cent.
Drawing by Dürer's oldest disciple Hans Suess von Kulmbach, retouched by Rubens.
Formerly attributed to Anonymous, German School, early 16th cent.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered at lower right, in black ink, "66". On verso of old mount on which drawing is laid down, in graphite, at center, "100"; below "A. Van Cort".
Associated names
Kulmbach, Hans von, approximately 1480-1522.
Anonymous, German School, active 16th century, Formerly attributed to.
Barnard, John, 1709-1784, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Anonymous, German School, active 16th century, Formerly attributed to.
Barnard, John, 1709-1784, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 135.
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. 152, no. 318, 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. 152, no. 318, repr.
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