Johnson Manuscript page - copy of verso of original Farnese Hercules leaf by Rubens (D.1978.PG.427)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
Image: Courtauld
Title
Johnson Manuscript page - copy of verso of original Farnese Hercules leaf by Rubens (D.1978.PG.427)
Date of Production
(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink (image), pen and brown ink (text) on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 16 cm
Width: 16 cm
Object Number
MS.1978.PG.1.10 (fol. 8)
Mode of Acquisition
Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, brown ink, transcribed and translated in Braham 1988: “Ex correspondentia / pectoris et dorsi / et scapúlarum cúm / mammis Nascatúr / crassitúdo cubi” [From a correspondence of the chest and the back and the shoulder blades with the nipples let the thickness of the cube be produced]; upper right corner, graphite: “8 / vid. 180” and below that in brown ink: “+”; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “8”.
Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, brown ink, transcribed and translated in Braham 1988: “Ex correspondentia / pectoris et dorsi / et scapúlarum cúm / mammis Nascatúr / crassitúdo cubi” [From a correspondence of the chest and the back and the shoulder blades with the nipples let the thickness of the cube be produced]; upper right corner, graphite: “8 / vid. 180” and below that in brown ink: “+”; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “8”.
Provenance
possibly Albert Rubens (1614-1657); bought by Captain Maurice Johnson, 1742/44 for his father, Maurice Johnson Sr., Spalding (1688-1755); by descent in Johnson and Marsden families; W.A. Marsden (book-plate, 1897); Christopher Marsden (bookplate, 1930); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 23-24 March, 1970, lot 179; purchased there via Maggs Bros. (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£2,600); Princes Gate Bequest 1978
Exhibition History
Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 17/10/2017-21/01/2018; Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, 08/02/2018-03/06/2018
Literature
Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 2017-18
cat. no. 28
cat. no. 28
van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
vol. I, pp. 71, 72n16; vol. II, pp. 44n1, 44n2
vol. I, pp. 71, 72n16; vol. II, pp. 44n1, 44n2
Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate
Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988-1989
cat. no. 58
no. 58 and pp. 17 under no. 19, 23 under no. 27, 50-51
Fig. p. p. 51
...Morecat. no. 58
no. 58 and pp. 17 under no. 19, 23 under no. 27, 50-51
Fig. p. p. 51
Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, p. 18
Fig. p. vol. I, fig. XI
...Lessvol. I, p. 18
Fig. p. vol. I, fig. XI
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