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Calumny of Apelles (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1577-1640

Title

Calumny of Apelles (recto)

Date of Production

(circa) 1606

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink and brown wash (recto), pen and brown ink and black chalk (verso) on grey-brown laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 30.9 cm
Width: 39.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.52

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

possibly Joseph Ceci (Tunbridge Wells); possibly purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 18 December 1953; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 31 December 1953 (£300); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate
Collection
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 06/10/1988-08/01/1989

Literature

De Poorter, Nora and Frans Baudouin, Architecture and Sculpture: Rubens’s House, CRLB, XXII (2), Arnout Balis, Brecht Vanoppen, Isabelle Van Tichelen et al. (eds.), Turnhout, 2022
I, nos. 13a (recto), 13b (verso) and pp. 18, 58, 85, 125, 137, 144 note 17, 173, 347
II, figs. 96 (recto), 97 (verso)

Heinen, Ulrich, ‘Immolatio boum: Eine unpublizierte Zeichnung für ein Scheinrelief an Rubens’haus’, Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, LXXI, 2010, pp. 197-232
pp. 223-24, 232 note 91

Baudouin, Frans, ‘De fresco’s op de gevels van Rubens’ werkplaats: enkele addenda’, Academie Analecta, Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Schone Kunsten, 57, 1, 1998, pp. 1-74
pp. 10-12
fig. 9 ...More

Logan, Anne-Marie, ‘Review. Rubens. Paintings, Drawings, and Prints in the Princes Gate Collection [Exhibition Catalogue] by Helen Braham’, Master Drawings, XXIX, 1991, pp. 314-15
p. 315
attribution to Rubens doubted

Massing, J.M., Du texte à l’image: La Calomnie d’Apelle et son iconographie, Strasbourg, 1990
pp. 381-85
fig. 26

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988-1989
cat. no. 26
and p. 38 under no. 41
ill. on p. 22 (recto)
dated c. 1606

Stutz, Z., ‘Die Residenz des Malerfürsten Rubens in Antwerpen und das vornehme Burgerhaus Rembrandt in Amsterdam’, in Künstlerhäuser von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart, E. Hüttinger (ed.), Zurich, 1985, pp. 139-52
p. 145 note 11

Shearman, John, The Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Cambridge, 1983
p. 303

Cast, David, Calumny of Apelles: a study in the humanist tradition, New Haven and London 1981
p. 184

McGrath, Elizabeth, 'The painted decoration of Rubens's house' in 'Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes', 1978 - pp. 245-77; XLI
pp. 248-51, 275
fig. a on p. 29

Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640. Katalog 1 Rubens in Italien: Gemälde, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen; Triumph der Eucharistie: Wandteppiche aus dem Kölner Dom, Wallraf Richartz Museum, Cologne, 1977
pp. 63-65
fig. E 36 on p. 63

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 52

Müller-Hofstede, J., 'Neue Olskizzen van Rubens' in 'Städel Jahrbuch', 1969; NF2
note 91 on p. 237

Norris, Christopher, and Popham, A.E., 'Review: Count Seilern's Flemish Paintings and Drawings: The Drawings' in 'Burlington Magazine', December 1955 - pp. 396-98, 403; XCVII
p. 398

Seilern, Count Antoine, Flemish paintings & drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW 7, London 1955; I
no. 52
pl. CIII ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left of centre: small shield, in the lower portion is a small crown or the letter "W" [see photo] (see remarks from Peter Bower in Notes field, though he recorded that there was no watermark in his report).

Inscription: Verso: lower left corner, brown ink: “46”; lower right corner, brown ink: “de Rubens af-af".

Collector's mark: none.

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