Pieter I de Jode (Antwerp 1570-1634)
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Pieter I de Jode (Antwerp 1570-1634)

The Judgement of Midas

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Pieter I de Jode (Antwerp 1570-1634)
The Judgement of Midas
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
7 in. (178 mm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

A circular drawing of The Judgment of Paris by the elder Pieter de Jode, executed in the same technique, was sold at Christie's, London, 7 July 1998, lot 274.
Another circular drawing also in the same technique and with almost the same dimensions is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, III, The Hague, 1987, no. 47).
A third, representing Moses and the Brazen Serpent, is in the Institut Néerlandais, Paris (K.G. Boon, The Netherlandish and German Drawings of the XVth and XVIth Centuries of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 1992, I, p. 233, no. 130, pl. 273).

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