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Maarten de Vos
1532-1603
The Nativity
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper; outlines incised with the stylus; double framing line in brown ink.
10 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (271 x 196 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 140
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Watermark: None.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso, at center, in brown ink, "M. devos"; at upper left and elsewhere, in graphite, "956"; at upper center, "FS"; at center, "F.4.".
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, 140, repr.
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. 111, no. 246, repr.
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