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Johnson Manuscript page - torso of a Venus Pudica (recto)

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - torso of a Venus Pudica (recto)

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto), pen and brown ink (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 16.2 cm

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.104 (fol. 99)

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







Related Works

The Johnson Manuscript (manuscript transcript of the Rubens Pocketbook)

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

Rubens - A Master in the Making, National Gallery, London, 2005-2006
p. 26
essay author: David Jaffé with Amanda Bradley

van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
vol. I, p. 73n22; vol. II, pp. 72-73
Fig. p. vol. III, fig. 107 ...More

Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, p. 96n64; vol. II, p. 240
Fig. p. vol. I, fig. LXXIV ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: upper half of foolscap with seven points (matches Heawood 2002 - dated 1674 on a collection of Dutch paper in London).

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink: “240.b."; left centre, brown ink: “huc libenter addidera / p[ar]tem feminei quid [last word crossed out] / corporis quid. / vinilutis in cera ex / antiquo marmoris / fragmento descripserat / o[mn]ibús [macron over whole word] delicatioribus elegan / tiis preditúm / nates habebat oblangas / t[a]m[en] succinctas“; lower centre, brown ink: “oia longiuscula“; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “99“. Verso, all in brown ink: upper right corner: “235.b. / collum feminae púl-. / cherrimae út adeas / redeamús similiús ex / eqúino q[ua]m viri“; upper left: “fol 236a“; clockwise from centre, with lines pointing to image that is showing through from the recto: "veneris grecae / 3“, “magnitudo / 2“, “magnitudo músculi / da monte cavallo", "2“, “4“, “4“ and “3“.

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