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Female head (after Rubens) and some trees

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1684-1721

After
(artist)
1577-1640

Title

Female head (after Rubens) and some trees

Date of Production

(circa) 1710 - 1712

Medium

red chalk (figure), pen and grey ink (trees) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 16 cm
Width: 13.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.219

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

Adrien Fauchier Magnan, Paris (1873-1963); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 4 December 1935, lot 75; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

McGrath, Elizabeth, Bert Schepers, Nils Büttner, Gregory Martin, Jeremy Wood, Eveliina Juntunen, Gerlinde Gruber and Fiona Healy, Mythological Subjects. II. Hercules to Olympus, CRLB XI, 2 vols., London, 2022
p. 195 under no. 62
agrees with Rosenberg-Prat's rejection of Watteau as artist in note 61 on p. 202

Eidelberg, Martin, 'An Album of Drawings from Rubens' Studio' in 'Master Drawings', Autumn 1997, 35/3, pp. 234-266. Accessed 10 September 2020, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1554343.pdf.
pp. 238, 248, 253-54
fig. 19 on p. 245
disagreed with Rosenberg and Prat's rejection of Watteau

Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 1996
vol. 3, no. R 225.
ill. on p. 1211
rejected as by Watteau ...More

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 219
pl. XLIV
dated c. 1710-12

Parker, K.T. and Jacques Mathey, Antoine Watteau: catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris 1957
vol. I, no. 284
ill.
as by Watteau ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge: "JOOG[?]" (nothing similar found in Heawood).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: whole sheet occupied by a letter, brown ink, cut off by edges and abraded in areas, transcribed by Dr Anita Brookner: "l[...] dont [...] ecarlate hier mes que si je les / [...] il me les achetera rien qu'il les ora / [...] marcher que moy la fontaine et / boilleau [...] com [...] frontispiesce les meilleur / [...] pression tout au plus qu[...] / vos ordres et desir je vous prie monsieur / de ne [or me?] retoucher le plus quil vous sera / posible fa figure de pelerin veu que jay / un cadre pour la mestre et vous obligerez / ce luy qui est avec respect / Monsieur / vost humble / et tres obeisant"; lower left edge, graphite: "size I".

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