Jacob de Gheyn

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Jacob de Gheyn
1565-1629
St. Mary Magdalene Seated, Adoring the Cross
Pen and brown ink, gray and blue washes, on paper.
9 5/16 x 6 9/16 inches (236 x 166 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of the Cremer Foundation, Elizabeth de Cuevas, Mrs. James H. Ripley, and Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg.
1983.88

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Signed at lower right center, in the same brown ink as the design, "J.D. Geyn in"; inscribed at lower left, in a later hand, in graphite, "No-19...". On verso, at upper left, in graphite, "No-125"; at lower left, in brown ink, "N 3.4/"; at lower right, "A/Z", and below, "Ba".
Watermark: Horn within a shield over letters "PN" (cf. Briquet 7867).

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John Trower (d. ca. 1840), Muntham Place, Findon, West Sussex; thence by descent to his great-grandson, A. G. Trower; sale (Trower et al.), London, Christie's, 29 November 1983, lot 128, repr.
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Trower, John, former owner.
Trower, A. G., former owner.
Cuevas, Elizabeth de, donor.
Ripley, James H., donor.
Rosenberg, Alexandre P., donor.
Rosenberg, Alexandre P., Mrs., donor.

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. 34, no. 60.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 262.

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