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Design for frontispiece bookplate of 'Manuale Divinorum Officiorum'

Maker

(artist)
1607-1678

Title

Design for frontispiece bookplate of 'Manuale Divinorum Officiorum'

Date of Production

1655

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey wash, white bodycolour, on laid paper, with black ink framing lines, incised for transfer, on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 14.7 cm
Width: 8.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4394

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£3); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

De Bruyn, Jean-Pierre and Sandrine Vézilier-Dussart (eds.), Érasme Quellin. Dans le sillage de Rubens, exh. cat., Musée de Flandre, Cassel, 2014
no. 43 in a catalogue raisonné of drawings at the end of the catalogue

De Bruyn, Jean-Pierre, ‘Erasmus II Quellinus (1607-1678), een stijlkritische benadering’, Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1984, pp. 271-329
p. 318
erroneously dated 1669

De Bruyn, Jean-Pierre, ‘Erasmus II Quellinus (1607-1678). Leven en werken’, PhD diss., 5 vols., University of Ghent, 1982
no. B34a ...More

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 129 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: unable to check due to support. Peter Bower was unable to discern any mark.

Inscription: Recto: all within drawing, brown ink, artist's hand: S.ANNA., DECOR, CARMELI, S.JOSEFH (upper centre); MANVALE / DIVINORUM / OFFICIORUM / iuxta / ritum & consuetudine / FE Discalceatorum / ordinis. / B.MARIÆ.V. / de monte Carmelo. (central panel); S. ELISÆVS, S.ELIAS, S. ALBERTVS., S.M. THERESIA., S. ANGELVS. (centre and lower centre); signed and dated by the artist Quellinus 1655 (lower right) [in file the date is read as 1646 but doesn’t seem right]. Support (historic), Recto: right centre, graphite: 1607-1678 / Pupil of Rubens. ; lower right, graphite: arrow pointing up at signature on drawing; right lower edge, graphite: by Erasmus.

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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