Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules Farnese hips and thighs

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Title

Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules Farnese hips and thighs

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper; some graphite offset on the verso from the facing drawing

Dimensions

Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 16 cm

Object Number

MS.1978.PG.1.51 (fol. 49)

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: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “202 .b.”; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “49”.

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

Balis, Arnout, Thinking through Rubens: selected studies by Arnout Balis, Elizabeth McGrath and Paul van Calster (eds.), London and Turnhout, 2023
fig. 7 on p. 134
Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 2017-18
cat. no. 28
Balis, A., ‘Rubens und Inventio. Der Beitrag seines theoretischen Studienbuches’, in 'Rubens passioni: Kultur der Leidenschaten im Barock (Rekonstruktion der Künste, 3)', Göttingen 2001 - pp. 11-40
p. 23
Fig. p. pl. 7 on p. 24
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van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
vol. I, p. 71; vol. II, pp. 44n1, 47
Fig. p. vol. III, fig. 49
Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. II, p. 235
Fig. p. vol. I, fig. LXII
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