Jupiter and Danaë

Details

Jacob Matham (1571-1631)
Jupiter and Danaë
with inscription 'JMatham'
red and black chalk, pencil framing lines
10 x 15 in. (254 x 380 mm.)

Provenance

N.D. Goldsmid (L. 1962).
J.J. Peoli (L. 2020).

Literature

L. Widerkehr, 'Jacob Matham graveur et ses rapports avec Hendrick Goltzius', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 1991-2, vol. 42-3, p. 245, fig. 158, p. 256, notes 79-81.
L. Widerkehr, Jacob Matham (1571-1631) graveur-éditeur à Haarlem. Un maître du burin et son oeuvre dessiné, Ph.D., Université de Strasbourg II, June 1997 (publication in progress), vol. 2, no. D. 19.

Lot Essay

Léna Widerkehr kindly confirmed the attribution to Matham comparing the drawing to a picture of 1603 by Matham's father-in-law Goltzius in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (exhibited in the Mauritshuis, The Hague and elsewhere, Hollandse Meesters uit Amerika, 1990, no. 22. Dr. Widerkehr dates the drawing to the year 1603, pointing out that during that period Matham produced his best drawings. After 1606 Matham tended to draw more in pen and ink.

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