Jan van der Straet
1523-1605
Nobilitas Enthroned with Liberalitas and Potestas
4 1/8 x 5 13/16 inches (105 x 149 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; executed on back of a letter (?), in the artist's hand, that is visible, but not legible from the recto.
1979.14:4
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist, at lower center in cartouche, "Nobilitas / ·6·".
Associated names
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, 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. 57, no. 97, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 217.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 217.
Classification
Century Drawings
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