Hendrik Goltzius

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Hendrik Goltzius
1558-1617
Lucretia as the Sense of Touch
Black chalk with smudging, white lead pigment that has now largely disappeared, on light gray laid paper.
12 9/16 x 8 1/6 inches (319 x 205 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. G.P. Van de Bovenkamp in memory of Armand G. Erpf.
1974.5
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Watermark: none.

Inscription: 

Numbered on verso, at center, in graphite, "600" (within a square); at left, in brown ink, "65".

Provenance: 
Pierre Lorillard; Hon. G.W. Pearson; acquired from Victor D. Spark (dealer), New York.
Associated names: 

Lorillard, Pierre, former owner.
Pearson, G. W., Hon., former owner.
Van de Bovenkamp, Gerrit P., Mrs., donor.

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, pp. 41-42, no. 67.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 147, 167.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 38, repr.
Denison, Cara D., William W. Robinson, Julia Herd, and Stephanie Wiles. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor and Clare Thaw. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, p. 25, under no. 4.

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Goltzius, Hendrik
School: 
Netherlandish
Century: 
16th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints