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Johnson Manuscript page - copy of verso of original Farnese Hercules leaf by Rubens (D.1978.PG.427)

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

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.10 (fol. 8)

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

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Related Works

The Johnson Manuscript (manuscript transcript of the Rubens Pocketbook) Study of the Farnese Hercules (recto)

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

van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
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 ...More

Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, p. 18
Fig. p. vol. I, fig. XI ...Less

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”.

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