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Circle of Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
Head of Plato
Pen and point of brush and brown ink, a little brown wash, some black chalk in the hair at the back of the head and in the area of hatching at the left, on paper.
10 3/16 x 6 13/16 inches (259 x 174 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 161
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Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left, in pale brown ink, "P. Rubens"; on verso, in graphite, "12"; below this, "S".
Provenance:
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:
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, 161, repr. (Rubens)
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. 156, no. 324, repr.
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