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Josef Frans Nollekens
1702-1748
Five Men Seated amid Roman Ruins
Point of brush, black ink and wash, some light pinkish-brown wash, over faint traces of graphite, on paper.
13 3/8 x 17 1/16 inches (340 x 434 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 101
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Watermark: fleur-de-lis within a shield, surmounted by a crown, with letters LVG below (cf. Heawod 1829).
Provenance:
William Mayor (Lugt 2799); 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:
Mayor, William, 1826-1892, 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. 343 repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912 III, 101, repr. (J. F. Nollekens).
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