Abraham van Diepenbeeck

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Abraham van Diepenbeeck

1596-1675

Fountain of Elijah

Pen and brown and black ink, gray-brown wash, over black chalk, with white opaque watercolor, and also corrected with opaque white (face of saint immediately to right of base of fountain), on laid paper; outlines incised with the stylus; traces of framing line in brown ink.

11 13/16 x 7 3/4 inches (300 x 196 mm)

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

I, 246a

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
Drawing was faithfully engraved in reverse by Peeter Clouwet (1629-1670) who was employed to translate Van Diepenbeeck's designs into engravings.
Formerly attributed to Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641).

Inscription:

Signed at lower center, in black ink, monogram ("V" superimposed on "A") "Diepenbeeck.F."; inscribed on verso of lining, in brown ink, "PNo" ["o" superscript].

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:

Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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. 119, no. 266, repr.

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