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Set of 36 (originally 37 - number 24 missing before acquisition) watercolours after Rubens's ceiling paintings in the Jesuit Church, Antwerp

Maker

(artist)
1695-1754

After
(artist)
1577-1640

Title

Set of 36 (originally 37 - number 24 missing before acquisition) watercolours after Rubens's ceiling paintings in the Jesuit Church, Antwerp

Date of Production

(circa) 1751

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.428

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

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Related Works

No image available Frontispiece with a portrait medaillon of the artist Peter Paul Rubens Fall of the Rebel Angels (recto) Sacrifice of Isaac Abraham and Melchisidek The Triumph of Joseph in Egypt (Joseph in Potiphar's chariot) Assumption of the Virgin Moses praying Solomon receiving the Queen of Sheba Esther before Ahasuerus Translation of Elijah Name of Jesus Name of Mary St Anne and the Virgin Nativity Adoration of the Magi Temptation of Christ Last Supper Raising of the Cross Resurrection of Christ Ascension David slaying Goliath Coronation of the Virgin Saint Mary Magdalene The Flight of Saint Barbara Saint Catherine Saint Margaret Martyrdom of Saint Lucy Saint Cecilia Saint Athanasius Saint Basil Saint Gregory of Nazianzus Saint Ambrose Saint Jerome Saint John Chrysostom Saint Augustine Virgin and Child appearing to Saint Gregory the Great

Provenance

possibly the set remaining in the artist's studio after his death (his estate sale catalogue of 10 March 1755 lists two sets in the forward, one in red and black chalk, and the other with 'elaborately executed colours' and listed for sale as no. 50 on p. 102; the other known set of coloured drawings is in Antwerp); bound in an album for Count Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710-1792) (as attested to by the second title page); Peter Isaac Thellusson, 1st Baron Rendlesham (1761-1808) (his bookplate inside the album cover); by descent to Lord Rendlesham (his bookplate inside the album cover); Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 20 July 1936 (£100); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Braham, Helen, The Princes Gate Collection [all Princes Gate works, the exhibited drawings listed separately as Selection A and Selection B], London, 1981
p. 50

Held, J.S., Zeitschrift fur Kunstegeschichte, 1969; XXXII
pp. 84ff

Martin, John Rupert, Rubens: the ceiling paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp (CRLB), London 1968
passim, esp. pp. 46-51 ...More

Staring, Adolph, Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam 1958
pp. 59-60, 141

Olieverfschetsen van Rubens, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1953
p. 54

Hind, A.M., Catalogue of drawings by Dutch and Flemish artists preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, London 1915-32
vol. II (1923), p. 158

van Gool, Johan, De Nieuwe Schouburg der nederlantsche Kunstschilders en Schilderessen..., 1751
vol. II, pp. 219-20 ...Less

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