Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Half-Length Figure of Christ on the Cross

Attributed to Anthony van Dyck
1599-1641

Half-Length Figure of Christ on the Cross

13 9/16 x 11 3/8 inches (344 x 288 mm)
Black chalk with some red chalk, slight traces of white, some stumping in black chalk of background, on paper.
I, 242

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: fleur-de-lis within a small circle, surmounted by a crown (cf. Heawood 1627).
Inscriptions/Markings
Illegible trace of inscription at lower right, in faint black chalk.
Associated names
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
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 242.
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. 125, no. 274, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department