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Peter Paul Rubens

1577-1640

Study of a Sleeping Lion

ca. 1614-1615

Black chalk, with white chalk, on light gray paper; traces of framing line in brown ink.

9 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches (250 x 420 mm)

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows, with the special assistance of a number of Fellows and Trustees in honor of Felice Stampfle.

1977.41

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Drawing is a study related to the painting "Daniel in the Lions' Den" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (inv. 1965.13.1) and "Saint Jerome" at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (Gal.-Nr. 955).

Provenance:

Possibly William Mayor (no mark; see Lugt 2799); A. Paul Oppé, London; Stefan Zweig, London and New York; H. Eisemann, London; Victor Koch, London; acquired from Schaeffer Galleries, New York.

Associated names:

Mayor, William, 1826-1892, former owner.
Oppé, A. P. (Adolf Paul), 1878-1957, former owner.
Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942, 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. 143-144, no. 307, repr. (as Rubens)
Dervaux, Isabelle. Drawing connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the old masters. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2007, p. 23, 26 (repr.)

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