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Johnson Manuscript page - studies using a triangle to draw human anatomy and accompanying text (recto)

Title

Johnson Manuscript page - studies using a triangle to draw human anatomy and accompanying text (recto)

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink (images), pen and brown ink (text) (recto), black chalk, pen and brown ink (images), pen and brown ink (text) (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.9 cm
Width: 15.9 cm

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.1.61 (fol. 59)

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

Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 2017-18
cat. no. 28

van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
vol. I, p. 71; vol. II, p. 45 (verso)
Fig. p. vol. III, fig. 40 (verso)

Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, p. 18

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: tip of a "V"-shape.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “207.b.”; upper centre, brown ink: “humeroru latitudo et triangulo / punctum in pube / pectoris latitúdinis / punctum in umbliculo / et sic celeris membris”; centre, brown ink: “hinc o[mn]is carnositas / et crassitudo partin / superiarúm / pectoris dorsi spapaloru [sic for “scapularum”] / ventris vero et infe= / rioru / […]ilitas et […]rictio”; lower centre, brown ink: “femoris crassitudo úreprehensibilis / vel eximia in parúúm usque pedem desmens / ex piramides va[riati]one”; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “59”. Verso: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “fol 208.a.”; upper centre, brown ink: “Triangúlús / quadratum p[er]fectum corpus aut circulare p[er[fectúm / non misceatúr aut convertatur nisi in triangulúm / equilateralem solet p[er]fectúm”; below and to the left, brown ink: “ex antiqúo”; centre right, brown ink, with lines corresponding to the drawn diagram: “A – latitudo fortis / B – et temporúm plenitude / C genarum exilitas inferi[…] / E distantia angulorum / et latitude superior / nasi in angustum / desinens / D – barba [n]o[n] obstantibus / angulis latioribus / ad mentúm t[a]men notet[u]r / angustia quedam / F cervix latam angústu / desinat / gulae”; lower left, brown ink: “fol 208.b. / coronati corona papúleae / ex pausania”.

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