Josef Frans Nollekens

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Josef Frans Nollekens

1702-1748

Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Nine Angels

Point of brush, black and burnt umber wash, over faint traces of graphite, on paper.

11 x 17 3/16 inches (280 x 436 mm)

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

III, 100

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Watermark: none.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso, at upper center, in brown ink, "ILo. [o superscript] 2.0" (visible with fiber-optic light).

Provenance:

Presumably Sir Charles Greville (1763-1836), English army officer (Lugt 549); George Guy, fourth Earl of Warwick (Lugt 2600); his sale, London, Christie's, 20-21 May 1896, lot 243 (Nollekens; to Fairfax Murray for £1.1.0); 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:

Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
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. 164, no. 344, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912 III, 100, repr. (J.F. Nollekens).

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