Hendrik Goltzius

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Hendrik Goltzius

1558-1617

Judgment of Midas

1590

Pen and brown ink, red-violet, brown, and gray watercolor, green opaque watercolor, with white opaque watercolor, on laid paper.

15 3/4 x 26 13/16 inches (400 x 681 mm)

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

I, 228

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Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription:

Signed with monogram and dated at right, in brown ink, "HG." (interlaced) / Fecit / A [superscript]o 1590".

Provenance:

John MacGowan (no mark; see Lugt 1496); his sale, London, T. Philipe, 26 January-1 February 1804, lot 266 ("a capital design"; to Ottley for £0.11.0); William Young Ottley (no mark; see Lugt 2662-65); Sir Thomas Lawrence (no mark; see Lugt 2445-46); Samuel Woodburn (no mark; see Lugt 2584); Lawrence-Woodburn sale, London, Christie's, 4-8 June 1860, lot 435 (to Evans £0.13.0); Dr. John Percy (Lugt 1504); his sale, London, Christie's, 15-18 and 22-24 April 1890, lot 1462; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

MacGowan, John, -1803, former owner.
Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Percy, John, 1817-1889, 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, 228.
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. 36, repr.
Denison, Cara D., and Helen B. Mules, with the assistance of Jane V. Shoaf. European Drawings, 1375-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, no. 69, repr.
The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century, cat. by John Oliver Hand, J. Richard Judson, William W. Robinson, and Martha Wolff. Washington D. C., National Gallery of Art; and New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1986-87, no. 56, pp. 159-61.
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. 40-41, no. 66.
From Leonardo to Pollock: Master drawings from the Morgan Library. New York: Morgan Library, 2006, cat. no. 32, p. 70-71.

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