David Vinckboons

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David Vinckboons
1576-1629
Consul Fabius Receiving His Father, Quintus Fabius Maximus
Pen and brown ink, gray, brown, and blue washes, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
7 1/8 x 11 3/8 inches (181 x 289 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
1961.31
Notes: 

Watermark: illegible.
Drawing with the second half of the composition is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Morgan and Amsterdam sheets apparently have been separated since at least the beginning of the twentieth century.

Inscription: 

Inscribed (signed?) on verso, in a seventeenth-century hand, in red chalk, "D. Vinckeboons".

Provenance: 
Acquired from P. & D. Colnaghi, London.
Bibliography: 

Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Twelfth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1963, p. 75.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 175.
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. 101, no. 219, repr.

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Vinckboons, David
School: 
Flemish
Century: 
17th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints