Johnson Manuscript page - three motifs of a cista mystica from a Bacchic Sarcophagus

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Title

Johnson Manuscript page - three motifs of a cista mystica from a Bacchic Sarcophagus

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

black chalk and grey wash on laid paper; black chalk offset on verso from facing drawing

Dimensions

Height: 20 cm
Width: 16.1 cm

Object Number

MS.1978.PG.1.129 (fol. 111)

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Keywords

Related Works (1)

The Johnson Manuscript (manuscript transcript of the Rubens Pocketbook) MS.1978.PG.1
The Johnson Manuscript (manuscript transcript of the Rubens Pocketbook)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: shield with Basle crozier and pendant monogram (Paper 1 in Peter Bower's 2017 report - paper made in Basle).

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, graphite, folio number: "111".

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
McGrath, Elizabeth, Gregory Martin, Fiona Healey, Bert Schepers, Carl van de Velde and Karolien de Clippel, Mythological Subjects. I. Achilles to The Graces, CRLB XI, 2 vols., London and Turnhout, 2016
I, p. 408 under no. 41
II, fig. 337
Wood, Jeremy, Rubens: copies and adaptations from Renaissance and later artists. Italian artists. III Artists working in central Italy and France (CRLB), London 2011
I, p. 32
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van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
pp. 151-54
vol. III, fig. 255
Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, pp. 45, 97n64
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