Frontispiece with a portrait medaillon of the artist Peter Paul Rubens

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
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Maker

(artist)
1695-1754

Title

Frontispiece with a portrait medaillon of the artist Peter Paul Rubens

Date of Production

(circa) 1751

Medium

graphite, pen and brown and grey ink, watercolour and bodycolour on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 19.3 cm
Width: 23.3 cm

Object Number

D.1978.PG.428.1

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Keywords

Related Works (1)

Set of 36 (originally 37 - number 24 missing before acquisition) watercolours after Rubens's ceiling paintings in the Jesuit Church, Antwerp D.1978.PG.428
Set of 36 (originally 37 - number 24 missing before acquisition) watercolours after Rubens's ceiling paintings in the Jesuit Church, Antwerp

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: bottom of a Strasburg lily above monogram "WR" (visible using VSC 8000).

Collector's mark: none (although unable to check verso).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre beneath medallion, brown ink: "PETRVS PAULVS RVBENS"; lower left on book cover, brown ink, signed: "JdWit".

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

Exhibition History

Peter Paul Rubens - A Touch of Brilliance, Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/09/2003-08/02/2004
Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate
Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 06/10/1988-08/01/1989

Literature

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988-1989
cat. no. 7
no. 7 and pp. 1-3, 9, 12 under no. 16
ill. on p. 10
Martin, John Rupert, Rubens: the ceiling paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp (CRLB), London 1968
p. 49

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