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Male head - after Rubens

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1684-1721

After
(artist)
1577-1640

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1717 - 1720

Medium

black and red chalk on laid paper, with black ink framing lines, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 14.7 cm
Width: 13.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.223

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

From Rosenberg and Prat 1996 and Colnaghi archive: possibly given by the artist to his friend Jean de Jullienne (1686-1766) (according to 1958 catalogue); his sale, Paris, 30 March - 22 May 1767, part of lots 792, 793, 794, 796 or 797; Francis Lawrence Barry; his sale, Christie's (London), 12 June 1936, lot 86, repr.; Colnaghi (London); Walter Stoye, Oxford (1886-1974), 1957; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 2 July 1958, lot 44A; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£300); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

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, 242, 249, 256; fn. 20
fig. 39 on p. 256

Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 1996
vol. 3, no. R 226
ill.
rejected as by Watteau

de Poorter, Nora, Corpus Rubenianum; part II; the Eucharist series (2 volumes), London 1978
p. 293 under no. 7d
fig. 130
as whereabouts unknown ...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. 223
pl. XLVIII
dated c. 1717-20

Parker, K.T. and Jacques Mathey, Antoine Watteau: catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris 1957
vol. I, p. 42, no. 274
pl. 274

Sotheby's, Modern pictures and drawings, London 12 June 1936
lot 86
ill. ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as laid down on mount; none evident in raking light.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, "A. WATTEAU (AFTER P.P. RUBENS)".

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