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Copy of the child from Rubens's 'La Vierge au Perroquet'

Maker

(artist)
1798-1863

Copy after
(artist)
1577-1640

Title

Copy of the child from Rubens's 'La Vierge au Perroquet'

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

graphite on laid paper, with extra strips of paper added to the upper and lower edges

Dimensions

Height: 27.6 cm
Width: 19.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.420

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

false mark of the artist, L.838, probably affixed by the dealer Vuillier; H. Larraine, Indochina; John Rewald (1912-1994), by 1959 (when exhibited as in his collection); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 7 July 1960, lot 28; purchased there via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£336); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Drawing Together, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/09/2017-02/01/2018

Drawing - Technique and Purpose, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 28/01/1981-26/04/1981

The Collection of Mr & Mrs John Rewald, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 31/03/1959-09/04/1959

Literature

The Courtauld Gallery and Thomas, Ben. Drawing Together (London: Courtauld Gallery, 2017-2018)
pp. 21, 38
ill. on p. 24

Drawing - Technique and Purpose, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1981
cat. no. no. 65

Seilern, Count Antoine, Recent Acquisitions at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1971; VI
no. 420
pl. XXXI
dated not later than 1850

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto: left centre edge: scallop shell (a drawing by Delacroix in the Fogg Art Museum 1974.181.6 also has a scallop shell watermark).

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right, stamped in red ink: false mark of Eugène Delacroix (L.838).

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