Design for frontispiece bookplate of 'Manuale Divinorum Officiorum'
Maker
(artist)
1607-1678
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
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
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
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).
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).
Information on this object may be incomplete and will be updated as research progresses. We are particularly committed to addressing any discriminatory or offensive language and ideas that might be present in our records. To help improve this record, and to enquire about images of The Courtauld Gallery Collection, please email gallery.collectionsonline@courtauld.ac.uk. Find out more about using and licensing our images.
____________________________