Copy after Anthony van Dyck
1599-1641
Two Heads and Slight Indication of a Face
7 7/16 x 5 9/16 inches (188 x 142 mm)
Black chalk, with red chalk on the upper head, on paper.
III, 182
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right corner, in brown ink, "Van Dyck"; in corners of mount, numbered in different hands, in graphit, "165, 89, 166". On verso of mount, in brown ink, "Tl.60./ P.24/ Tl. 47 / 48 / F.9.P.14 / F.", Richardson's pressmarks.
Associated names
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Hubert, Guillaume, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Hubert, Guillaume, 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, 182.
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. 127, no. 278, 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. 127, no. 278, repr.
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