School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

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School of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

1606-1669

Adam and Eve with the Devil: Genesis 3:1-5. Detail of Adam's Head

ca. 1650

Pen and brown ink, smudged brush strokes in detail of Adam's head and shoulders, on paper.

5 1/8 x 4 5/16 inches (130 x 110 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

I, 186

Notes:

Laid down onto a cardboard mount with number "61" printed at top and "Rembrandt van Ryn" below (probably that of a previous English collector, since it reflects the mounting practice of the British Museum).

Inscription:

Inscribed in graphite, at upper right, "Born"; and with calculations at lower right, "11 x 13" (twice).
Watermark: countermark, letters "PB" (visible through cardboard lining with fiber optic light).

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:

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, Formerly attributed to.
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, I, 186, repr. (as Rembrandt).
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 228.

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