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Johnson Manuscript page - print of a man in robes standing in a landscape scratching his chin, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721)

Maker

Copy after
(author)
1452-1519

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - print of a man in robes standing in a landscape scratching his chin, from Leonardo's 'Treatise of Painting' (1721)

Date of Production

1721

Medium

etching on laid paper, trimmed and laid down on manuscript page

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm (whole page)
Width: 16.3 cm (whole page)

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.128

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, left centre edge, fragment: upper half of a Pro Patria.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner of print, printed in black: “front p. 187“; man labelled “A“, “B“ and “C“; lower right corner of print, printed in black: “31“; right centre of page, graphite: 24. / “St Thomas / Sec figure on / West front of / Croyland Abby [sic]“; lower right corner of page, graphite, folio number: “120“.

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