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Saint Francis kneeling, receiving the Infant Christ

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1577-1640

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1617

Medium

black and red chalk with touches of added wash, pen and brown ink, on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, the left edge partially made up, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 37.1 cm
Width: 26.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.324

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

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam (1726-1798); by descent to Christiaan Josi, Amsterdam and London (1768-1828); his estate sale, Christie’s (London), 18 March 1829, lot 110; purchased there by Hixon [as annotated in catalogue from RKDH; a Mr Hixon had a sale at Christie's on 15 March 1848 but this drawing did not appear there; another sale on 26 July 1833 has not yet been scanned]; Victor Koch, Hampstead (1867-1959) [handwritten note in Frick's copy of 1929 auction catalogue identifies it as his sale, and Vlieghe 1972 also cited Koch as a former owner]; his sale, Frederick Müller & Cie (Amsterdam), 21 November 1929, lot 29; Dr N. Beets, Amsterdam; his sale, Frederick Müller & Cie (Amsterdam), 9-11 April 1940, lot 149; private collector, America; her sale, Sotheby's (London?), 25 March 1965, lot 100; Hallsborough Gallery, London; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 16 December 1965 (£4095); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

The Value of Art, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 24/06/1999-30/08/1999

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 06/10/1988-08/01/1989

Literature

Logan, Anne-Marie, ‘Review. Rubens. Paintings, Drawings, and Prints in the Princes Gate Collection [Exhibition Catalogue] by Helen Braham’, Master Drawings, XXIX, 1991, pp. 314-15
pp. 314-15
as not by Rubens

The Value of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999
unpag.
ill.
says attribution has been questioned; in file

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988-1989
cat. no. 35
and pp. 19, 44
ill. on p. 31
as by Rubens made for Lasne, dated c. 1617; file ...More

Rubens e l’incisione nelle collezioni di Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Villa della Farnesina alla Lungara, Rome, 1977
p. 64 under no. 116
in file

Vlieghe, Hans, Saints (CRLB), London 1972-73
pp. 145-46 under no. 94
as a copy probably by Michel Lasne; in file

Seilern, Count Antoine, Flemish paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; IV
no. 324
pl. XXXIX
dated c. 1618-20; in file

Rooses, Max, L'œuvre de P. P. Rubens: histoire et description de ses tableaux et dessins, Antwerp 1886-92
vol. II, p. 254 under no. 420 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none (per Peter Bower's 2017 report, wrapping paper with very indistinct wire profile).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): lower left, brown ink: "Rubens fecit". According to Seilern’s 1969 catalogue, a note on the former mount attested to Ploos van Amstel as the former owner of this sheet.

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