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Studies of a sleeping female nude (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1577-1640

Title

Studies of a sleeping female nude (recto)

Date of Production

1628 - 1630

Medium

pen and brown ink (recto), red chalk, pen and brown ink (verso) on laid paper, stained brown by water damage

Dimensions

Height: 26.3 cm
Width: 34.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.61

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

Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830), L.2445; ceded by his executors to Samuel Woodburn (London), 1835; Woodburn estate sale, Christie’s (London), 4 - 8 June 1860, lot 343 (as by Van Dyck); purchased there by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872); by descent to his grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856-1938); purchased from the Fenwick estate by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1946; 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

17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 03/01/1938-12/03/1938

Literature

Logan, Anne-Marie in association with Kristin Lohse Belkin, Anne-Marie Logan in association with Kristin Lohse Belkin, The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens. A Critical Catalogue, Volume Two (1609-1620), 2 vols, Turnhout, 2023
part I, pp. 249-50 under no. 358
to be discussed in forthcoming Volume III

McGrath, Elizabeth, Bert Schepers, Nils Büttner, Gregory Martin, Jeremy Wood, Eveliina Juntunen, Gerlinde Gruber and Fiona Healy, Mythological Subjects. II. Hercules to Olympus, CRLB XI, 2 vols., London, 2022
I, no. 90 (recto) and p. 473 under no. 92
II, figs. 315 (recto), 316 (verso)

McGrath, Elizabeth, Gregory Martin, Fiona Healey, Bert Schepers, Carl van de Velde and Karolien de Clippel, Mythological Subjects. I. Achilles to The Graces, CRLB XI, 2 vols., London and Turnhout, 2016
I, no. 20a (verso) and pp. 281-82 under no. 20
II, figs. 209 (verso), 210 (recto), 214 (detail of inscription on verso)
entry authors: Elizabeth McGrath and Gregory Martin ...More

Belkin, Kristin Lohse, Rubens: copies and adaptations from Renaissance and later artists. (1), German and Netherlandish artists (CRLB), London 2009
p. 222 under no. 112 (verso only)
in file for PG.322

Rubens - A Master in the Making, National Gallery, London, 2005-2006
p. 182 under no. 83 (verso only)
fig. 63 on p. 182 (verso only)
in file

Peter Paul Rubens: the drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 15 January - 3 April 2005 New York, New Haven, London 2005
p. 25 (verso)

Esso presents Rubens & the Italian Renaissance, Austalian National Gallery, Canberra, 1992
p. 100 under no. 25 (verso only)
in file

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988-1989
cat. no. 38
and pp. 19, 34 under no. 39
ill. on p. 33 (recto)
dated c. 1628-30; in file

Held, Julius S., Rubens: selected drawings, Oxford 1986 (2nd ed.)
nos. 183 and 184, and p. 31
pls. 178-79

Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640. Austellung zur 400. Widerkehr seines Geburtstages, Klaus Demus (ed.), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1977
p. 106 under no. 42
entry author: Karl Schütz

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 61
grudgingly accepts date c. 1626; in file

Burchard, Ludwig and R.A. d'Hulst, Rubens drawings, Brussels 1963
no. 197 on pp. 316-17
ill. (recto and verso reversed)
indicate date c. 1626, and reverse the recto and verso; in file

Held, Julius S., Rubens: selected drawings, London 1959
no. 55 and pp. 28, 76
pls. 56 (verso) and 57 (recto)
c. 1628-30 (recto), c. 1628-29 (verso); in file except for images and p. 28

Popham, A.E., 'Sir Thomas Phillipps as a Patron of Artists and a Collector of Pictures and Drawings' in 'The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841-1872 (Phillipps Studies, IV), Cambridge 1956
App. B, p. 226, no. 16

Seilern, Count Antoine, Flemish paintings & drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW 7, London 1955; I
no. 61
pls. CXVII (recto), CXVIII (verso)
dated 1630-31 (recto and verso); in file

Simon, Kurt Erich, 'Rubens' Satyrn und die ruhende Diana' in 'Jahrbuch der preussischen Kunstsammlungen', 1942; LXIII
p. 113

17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1938
cat. no. 606

Christie's, London, Sale Catalogue of Old Master drawings (H. Oppenheimer Collection), 10-14 Jul. 1936
p. 150 under lot 307
entry author: K.T. Parker

Popham, A.E., Catalogue of drawings in the collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, now in the possession of his grandson T. FitzRoy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House Cheltenham, London 1935
p. 194, no. 3
pl. LXXXV

Delacre, Maurice, Le dessin dans l'oeuvre de Van Dyck, Brussels 1934
pp. 171-73, 228-29, 233
fig. 83

Parker, K.T., Vasari Society, Second series, 1932; XIII
no. 9
dated c. 1625 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, blindstamped: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445).

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, graphite:a circle with a line through it [a paraph? looks similar though not a match to L.3580, for example]. Verso: upper centre edge, brown ink: "No 18"; upper centre edge, red chalk, artist's hand, unclear: "de man[?] swart / bonte rinders [or vlinders?]".

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