Name of Jesus
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
Image: Courtauld
Maker
(artist)
1695-1754
1695-1754
After
(artist)
1577-1640
(artist)
1577-1640
Title
Name of Jesus
Date of Production
(circa) 1751
Medium
graphite, pen and grey and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper, with octagonal brown ink and wash framing lines
Dimensions
Height: 19.7 cm
Width: 24 cm
Width: 24 cm
Object Number
D.1978.PG.428.11
Mode of Acquisition
Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: upper centre: lines visible in raking light but unable to identify as secured to current mount, could not discern any better with VSC 8000. William Clarke recorded in his 1988 conservation notes that the verso (not currently accessible) has the faint impression of the crown of a watermark, perhaps from being pressed in contact with another sheet.
Collector's mark: none (although unable to check verso).
Inscription: Recto: centre, grey ink and yellow watercolour: "IHS".
Collector's mark: none (although unable to check verso).
Inscription: Recto: centre, grey ink and yellow watercolour: "IHS".
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
Martin, John Rupert, Rubens: the ceiling paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp (CRLB), London 1968
pp. 132-34 under no. 23 and pp. 5, 226, 231
fig. 126
pp. 132-34 under no. 23 and pp. 5, 226, 231
fig. 126
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