School of Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
Copy after Rubens's "Fall of the Damned", Munich
15 5/8 x 21 inches (397 x 533 mm)
Black, red, brown, ochre, and white chalk, considerable stumping; accented in pen and brown ink and wash, with white and light brown opaque watercolor, on paper; traces of a framing line.
III, 163
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Drawing is a copy after the lower right corner of Rubens's painting the "Fall of the Damned", probably executed about 1618-21, now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
Drawing is a copy after the lower right corner of Rubens's painting the "Fall of the Damned", probably executed about 1618-21, now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, at lower left corner, in an old hand, in graphite, "dJ / JR [circle with vertical line] ·": ; in brown ink, "49" ("23" crossed out); in lower right corner, in graphite, "P.P. Rubens"; in another hand, "£31.10.0". In the opposite direction, in a seventeenth-century hand, in graphite, "van rubbens no 23".
Associated names
Vos, Jacob de, 1735-1833, former owner.
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, 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. 153, no. 320, repr.
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