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Meleager killing his uncles Plexippus and Toxeus
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1577-1640
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Width: 15.5 cm
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Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 06/10/1988-08/01/1989
Tekeningen van P.P. Rubens, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, 1956
Rubens tentoonstelling, Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 05/08/1933-01/10/1933
Literature
I, no. 283
II, fig. 392
dated c. 1612-14
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
I, no. 83 and pp. 405-06 under no. 82
II, fig. 274
Vanoppen, Brecht, ‘La conceptión de las pinturas de Meleagro y Atalanta de Jacob Jordaens’ and ‘The Conception of the Meleager and Atalanta Paintings by Jordaens’, Boletin del Museo del Prado, XXXV, 53, 2017, pp. 83-91 and pp. 136-40
pp. 84, 136
fig. 1 on p. 83
dated c. 1611-1618 ...More
White, Christopher and Charlotte Crawley, The Dutch and Flemish drawings of the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge and New York, 1994
p. 304 under no. 435
Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988-1989
cat. no. 32a
ill. on p. 28
dated c. 1611-15; in file
Held, Julius S., Rubens: selected drawings, Oxford 1986 (2nd ed.)
pp. 101-02 under nos. 81 and 82
as in Burchard coll.; McGrath et al. 2022 and Buttner 2022 erroneously list this as under nos. 80 and 81
Braham, Helen, The Princes Gate Collection [all Princes Gate works, the exhibited drawings listed separately as Selection A and Selection B], London, 1981
pp. 140, 323
Peter Paul Rubens: kritischer Katalog der Zeichnungen: Originale, Umkreis, Kopien, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1977, 1977
p. 76 under no. 27
Seilern, Count Antoine, Flemish paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; IV
no. 323
pl. XXXVIII
dated c. 1615 or somewhat later; in file
Burchard, Ludwig and R.A. d'Hulst, Rubens drawings, Brussels 1963
vol. I, no. 83 on pp. 137-38 and p. 135 under no. 80
vol. II, fig. 83
implied date c. 1616-18; in file
Held, Julius S., Rubens: selected drawings, London 1959
pp. 105-06 under no. 29
fig. 23
dated c. 1611-13;j in file except for image
Tekeningen van P.P. Rubens, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, 1956
cat. no. 49
Rubens tentoonstelling, Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1933
cat. no. 100
ill.
Lugt, Frits, Jahrbuch der Preussischer Kunstsammlungen, 1931; LII
p. 44 under S. 124
in file ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Verso (hidden under mount, likely on intermediate sheet used for lining): lower left, brown ink: “le Provence”. Mount (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite: "1558 / 1634" and "F.R. = / Lugt 1042".
Collector's mark: none (the inscription indicates the presence of L.1042, but it was on part of the mount attached to the drawing originally mounted below this one, now in the Ashmolean).
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