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Martyrdom of Saint Lucy

Maker

(artist)
1695-1754

After
(artist)
1577-1640

Title

Martyrdom of Saint Lucy

Date of Production

(circa) 1751

Medium

graphite, pen and grey and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper, framed in an oval with brown ink and wash lines; the upper and lower edges trimmed so that the oval protrudes beyond edges of the sheet

Dimensions

Height: 19.1 cm
Width: 23.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.428.28

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





Related Works

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

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. 153-54 under no. 29 and pp. 7, 226, 233
fig. 156

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge (visible only in raking light or with VSC 8000): lower portion of a Strasburg lily above monogram "WR".

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

Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite, artist's hand?: "St. Lúsia".

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