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Johnson Manuscript page - two views of Hercules with accompanying text

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - two views of Hercules with accompanying text

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink (image), pen and brown ink (text) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.9 cm
Width: 16.1 cm

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.50 (fol. 48)

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

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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

Barone, Juliana, ‘Rubens and Leonardo on Motion: Figures, Inscriptions, and Texts’ in Claire Farago (ed.), Re-reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe, Farnham, 2009, pp. 441-72
pp. 451-52
fig. 17.4b

Barone, Juliana, 'Rubens and Leonardo on motion: figures, inscriptions and texts' in 'Raccolta Vinciana', Milan 2007 - pp. 343-93; 32
p. 372
fig. 9 ...More

van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
vol. I, pp. 72n17, 258n2

Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, p. 96n64; vol. II, p. 235 ...Less

Inscriptions

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

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “202.a.”; upper part of page, brown ink: “A status seu habitus seu modis standi, dedendi ambulandi et / celere cúiúscúnque figúrae sat Púm [macron over whole word] predestinatio[ne]m / elementúm sive c[a]p[t]us extribus simplicissimis princi= / piis, cubo, globo, et piramide / B Cúbús vel quadratúm perfectúm predestinatúm elementúm / est statuarúm Virorum fortiúm heroúm Atletarúm / Apostolorúm et q[uo]d grave simplere firmúm robustúm / exprimi debet predestinatúm elementúm cubus e[st ] / solus enim cubus basis e[st] et stare pt [macron over both letters].”; each figure labelled in brown ink: “in hercúle.” and “stat gravis Entellús”; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “48”.

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