Jan van der Straet

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Jan van der Straet

1523-1605

Ulysses and Calypso Seated in a Half-Domed Pavilion, a Ship in the Distance

Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.

2 15/16 x 4 1/8 inches (74 x 108 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1979.14:6

Notes:

Watermark: Fragment of circle surmounted by six-pointed star. Unidentified form inside circle. Watermark, beta radiograph. circle, star, fragment. 144832wm_1979_14_6_WM_beta.jpg

Provenance:

Giovanni Piancastelli (no mark; see Lugt S. 2078a); Edward and Mary Brandegee (no mark; see Lugt S. 1860a); Rudolf Wien (dealer), New York; János Scholz (acquired from Wien, 1957; no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

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, p. 58, no. 98, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 217.

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