Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules Farnese and studies of arms and a soldier reaching from an engraving of 'Massacre of the Innocents'

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Maker

Copy after
Copy after
(artist)
ca. 1486-1527 (Life dates)
After
After
(artist)
1488-1560

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules Farnese and studies of arms and a soldier reaching from an engraving of 'Massacre of the Innocents'

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 16.3 cm

Object Number

MS.1978.PG.1.49 (fol. 47)

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: upper half of Arms of Amsterdam.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “201 .b.”; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “47”.

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
Lusheck, Catherine, Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing, London, 2017
p. 211
fig. 4.21
van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
vol. I, p. 71; vol. II, p. 48n1
Fig. p. vol. III, fig. 47
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Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, p. 96n64; vol. II, pp. 234-35
Fig. p. vol. I, fig. LXI
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