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Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of a standing man, right hand on hip and left hand pointing down, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of painting' (1721) (recto)

Maker

Copy after
(artist)
1452-1519

(etcher)
1637-1714

Title

Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of a standing man, right hand on hip and left hand pointing down, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of painting' (1721) (recto)

Date of Production

1721 and ?

Medium

etching on laid paper (recto and verso), the verso print on a separate sheet that has been trimmed and hinged along its right edge to the verso of the recto etching, which is printed directly on the sheet

Dimensions

Height: 21 cm (whole page)
Width: 13.3 cm (whole page)

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.118

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper left edge, fragment: bottom of a fleur-de-lis.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner of plate, printed in black: “front p. 114.”; lower right corner of plate, printed in black: “5”. Verso: lower right corner of plate, printed in black: “34”.

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