The Three Marys, 1590s

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (corners trimmed off): 15 x 13.8 cm (5 7/8 x 5 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2000.20.3

Artists / Makers

Johann Willinges (artist) German, c. 1560 - 1625

Image Use

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Provenance

Falsified collector's mark of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London [1723 - 1792] (Lugt 2364).[1] (sale, Christie's London, 9 July 1982, no. 444, as Rottenhammer). (Paul Drey Gallery, New York, 1993); George Allen; (sale, Sotheby's New York, 26 January 2000, no. 158); (C. G. Boerner Inc., New York, 2000); purchased 2000 by NGA.

[1]For forged Reynolds collector's marks, see Donato Esposito, "Whats' in a Mark, or What Marks Can Tell Us: The Use and Abuse of the Collector's Mark of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792), Les marques de collections II, ed. Peter Fuhring and Cordelia Hattori, Dijon, 2011, 57-63 and 154-167. Donato Esposito confirmed that this was a falsified mark after seeing the drawing in person (e-mail, 9 September 2011).

Associated Names

Allen, George
Boerner LLC, C.G.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1993: Master Drawings, 16th-19th Centuries, Paul Drey Gallery, New York,1993, no. 5 (as attributed to Willinges).