Johnson Manuscript page - end of 'quare figurae humanae elementa tria' text, start of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' (recto)
Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' text (verso)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
Image: Courtauld
Title
Johnson Manuscript page - end of 'quare figurae humanae elementa tria' text, start of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' (recto)
Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' text (verso)
Johnson Manuscript page - continuation of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' text (verso)
Date of Production
(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775
Medium
pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 20.9 cm
Width: 16 cm
Width: 16 cm
Object Number
MS.1978.PG.1.5 (fol. 3)
Mode of Acquisition
Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “3”; whole page, brown ink: "+ / hic a nobis constitúta súnt. Pythagoras húnc […]" [not fully transcribed, continued on verso]; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: "3". Verso: whole page, brown ink, continued from recto: “+ / Hic igitúr Cúbús, sive qúadratúm perfectúm […]” [not fully transcribed].
Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “3”; whole page, brown ink: "+ / hic a nobis constitúta súnt. Pythagoras húnc […]" [not fully transcribed, continued on verso]; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: "3". Verso: whole page, brown ink, continued from recto: “+ / Hic igitúr Cúbús, sive qúadratúm perfectúm […]” [not fully transcribed].
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
Thielemann, Andreas, ‘Stone to Flesh: Rubens’ Treatise De imitatione statuarum’ in Cordula van Wyhe (ed.), Rubens and the Human Body, Turnhout, 2018, pp. 41-101
p. 77 note 95
p. 77 note 95
Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 2017-18
cat. no. 28
cat. no. 28
Thielemann, Andreas 'Rubens’ Traktat de imitatione staturaum’ in Ursula Rombach and Peter Seiler (eds.), Imitatio als Transformation. Theorie und Praxis der Antikennachahmung in der Frühen Neuzeit, Petersberg, 2012, pp. 95-146
p. 142 note 117
...Morep. 142 note 117
Rubens - A Master in the Making, National Gallery, London, 2005-2006
p. 25
essay author: David Jaffé with Amanda Bradley
p. 25
essay author: David Jaffé with Amanda Bradley
van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
vol. I, p. 72
vol. I, p. 72
Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, pp. 20, 40
...Lessvol. I, pp. 20, 40
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