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Study for the figure of Saint Joseph

Maker

(artist)
1577-1640

Title

Study for the figure of Saint Joseph

Date of Production

(circa) 1619 - 1620

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 19.1 cm
Width: 19.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.59

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

Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese (1780-1825); Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert, 3rd Viscount Knutsford (1855 -1935); by descent to Mrs. Arnett Hibbert; Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 29 July 1941 (£220); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

See copy of letter from Scharf in object file, detailing the earlier owners of this sheet.

Other drawings such as at the British Museum 2001,0127.9 have the same provenance and trace an unbroken line from Pauline Bonaparte to Alfred Scharf.

Exhibition History

Peter Paul Rubens - A Touch of Brilliance, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/09/2003-08/02/2004

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

Literature

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. 314
as more likely a copy

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988-1989
cat. no. 36
and p. 30 under no. 35
ill. on p. 31
dated c. 1619-20; in file

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 59
in file ...More

Müller Hofstede, Justus, 'Opmerkingen bij enige tekeningen van Rubens in het Museum Boymans-van Beuningen' in 'Bulletin Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen', 1962; XIII, 3
p. 110 note 48
in file

Seilern, Count Antoine, Flemish paintings & drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW 7, London 1955; I
no. 59
pl. CXIV
dated c. 1619-20; in file ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, lower right: crown over double "C" monogram with the Cross of Lorraine (per Peter Bower, this is a version of the Arms of Lorraine in use from 1600-1640s, more commonly in the earlier part of this period - see e.g. Heawood 2894).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Backing sheet (Removed in 1987, cut down and now mounted with the drawing as several small fragments of paper): graphite: “57”; brown ink: “aaa”; graphite, with the numbers written over in brown ink: “N 16”; graphite: “I”.

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