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Johnson Manuscript page - end of 'quare figurae humanae elementa tria' text, start of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' (recto)

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - end of 'quare figurae humanae elementa tria' text, start of 'De figurae humanis elementis cubo, circulo et triangulo' (recto)

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

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.5 (fol. 3)

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

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

Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 2017-18
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 ...More

Rubens - A Master in the Making, National Gallery, London, 2005-2006
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

Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, pp. 20, 40 ...Less

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].

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