About the Artwork
Ptolemy Supervising the Construction of a Building in Alexandria
between 1649 and 1712
Jan Luyken
1649 - 1712
Dutch
Unknown
Pen and brown ink and brown, blue, purple, and gray wash over a preliminary drawing in black chalk on buff laid paper
Sheet: 3 7/8 × 6 inches (9.8 × 15.2 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
34.98
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Provenance
1934, E. Speelman (London, England)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA xiv (1934): p. 57.
Scheyer, Ernst. Drawings and Miniatures from the XII to the XX Century. Detroit, 1936, no. 89.
Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 32, no. 11 (ill.).
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Jan Luyken, Ptolemy Supervising the Construction of a Building in Alexandria, between 1649 and 1712, pen and brown ink and brown, blue, purple, and gray wash over a preliminary drawing in black chalk on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.98.
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