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The Three Graces (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1577-1640

Title

Date of Production

1635 - 1640

Medium

red and white chalk (recto), black chalk (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.8 cm
Width: 17 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.66

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

Jonathan Richardson, the elder, London (1665-1745), L.2183; by descent to Jonathan Richardson, the younger, London (1694-1771); Charles Rogers, London (1711-1784), L.624; his estate sale, T. Philipe (London), 15-24 April 1799, lot 573; Pierre Defer, Paris (1798-1870); by descent to his son-in-law, Henri Dumesnil (1823-1898), L.739; his estate sale, experts Féral et Danlos (Paris), 10-12 May 1900, lot 97 (where it was stated it had belonged previously to Sir Joshua Reynolds); purchased there by Danlos (Paris) (1,110 fr); John Postle Heseltine, London (1843-1929); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 27-29 May 1935, lot 191; purchased there via Rosenbaum & Delbanco (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

A Passion for Drawings, Collectors at the Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 28/02/2002-09/06/2002

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992

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

Dessins de Maitres anciens, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1879 ...Less

Literature

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, p. 452 (recto)
II, fig. 394 (recto)

Healy, Fiona and Lois Oliver, Ashok Roy and Rachel Billinge, 'The Evolution of Rubens's Judgement of Paris (NG 194)' in 'National Gallery Technical Bulletin', Yale University Press 2005; 26
p. 9
pl. 6 on p. 10 (recto)

Las Tres Gracias de Rubens, Prado, 2001 Madrid 2001
p. 69
fig. 42 on p. 69 (recto) ...More

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 62
pp. 132, 191
ill. on p. 133
dated c. 1635-40

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988-1989
cat. no. 42
and p. 19
ill. on p. 38 (recto)
dated c. 1635-40; in file

Held, Julius S., Rubens: selected drawings, Oxford 1986 (2nd ed.)
no. 188
pl. 188 (recto)

Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640. Austellung zur 400. Widerkehr seines Geburtstages, Klaus Demus (ed.), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1977
p. 103 under no. 40
fig. 20 (recto)

Díaz Padrón, Matías, Museo del Prado. Catálogo de Pinturas, I, Escuela Flamenca Siglo XVII, 2 vols., Madrid, 1975
p. 272 under no. 1070

Fredlund, Björn, Arkitektur i Rubens måleri: form och funktion, Göteborg 1974
p. 147 note 18 (verso)
in file

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 66
dated c. 1636-38; in file

Müller Hofstede, Justus, Review of Burchard and d'Hulst in 'Master Drawings', 1966; IV, 4
no. 204 on p. 454 (recto only)
agrees with Held's date c. 1631-32; in file

Müller Hofstede, J.C., 'Zeichnungen des späten Rubens' in 'Pantheon', May/Jun. 1965; XXIII
pp. 174, 177 note 8
dated c. 1632-33; in file

Burchard, Ludwig and R.A. d'Hulst, Rubens drawings, Brussels 1963
I, no. 204 and p. 329 under no. 205
II, pl. 204
implied date c. 1636-38; in file

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

Held, Julius S., Rubens: selected drawings, London 1959
no. 62
pl. 64 (recto)
dated c. 1631-32; in file

Tekeningen van P.P. Rubens, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, 1956
p. 116 under no. 144

van Regteren Altena, J.Q., 'Boekbespreking' in 'Oud Holland', 1955; LXX
p. 176
ill. (verso)

Seilern, Count Antoine, Flemish paintings & drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW 7, London 1955; I
no. 66
pls. CXXVII (recto), CXXVIII (verso)
dated 1638-40; in file

Heseltine, John Postle, Some original drawings by ancient and modern artists of various schools remaining in the collection of J.P.H., London 1917
no. 31
ill. (recto) ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: Arms of France above "4 / NG" (per Peter Bower, made by Nicholas Georgel, who worked the Grand Meix mill near Nancy between 1626 and 1642).

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: Charles Rogers (L.624); lower left corner, stamped in black: Defer-Dumesnil Collection (L.739); lower right corner, stamped in black: Jonathan Richardson, the elder (L.2183).

Inscription: Verso: lower right corner, graphite, probably Heseltine's hand: "31".

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