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Jan Swart van Groningen
approximately 1495-approximately 1560
The Hanging of Bigthan and Teresh, Esther 2:21-23
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper; framing line in brown ink over red chalk.
10 1/16 x 7 1/8 inches (257 x 203 mm)
Purchased on the Director's Fund in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Ryskamp.
1987.1
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Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, 1967; Gerard Meyer, 1974; sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 10 June 1975, lot 28; private collection, the Netherlands.
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. 59, no. 101, repr.
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