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Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of a nude man leaning on nothing, his back foot planted on a block, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721)

Maker

Copy after
(author)
1452-1519

Title

Johnson Manuscript page (loose sheet) - print of a nude man leaning on nothing, his back foot planted on a block, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721)

Date of Production

1721

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.9 cm (whole page)
Width: 13.3 cm (whole page)

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.126

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

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

Literature

Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 2017-18
cat. no. 28

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner of print, printed in black: “front p. 111."; lower right below figure, printed in black: “C“; lower right corner of print, printed in black: “8“.

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