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

Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 17/10/2017-21/01/2018; Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, 08/02/2018-03/06/2018

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

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: lower half of a foolscap with five points visible above "4" above 3 Medici balls (matches Heawood 2002 - dated 1674 on a collection of Dutch papers in London).

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “209.a.”; whole page, brown ink with corrections in grey ink, passages mostly repeated from earlier folio PG.1.40: “+ / talis prima dares capút altúm in praelia tollit / ostenditque húmeros latos, alternaque iactat / brachia protendens et verberat ictibús aúras / Hec fatús dúplicem ex húmeris reiecit amictúm / et magnos membrorúm artús, magna ossa lacertosque exúit atque ingens media consistit arena. etc / Consistit in digitos extemplo arrectús [this corrected from “armatus”] úterque / brachiaque ad súperas interritús extúlit aúras / abdúxere retro longi [sic] capita ardúa, ab ictú / immiscentque manús manib[u]s pugnamque lacessúnt / illuaegra [sic for “illum … aegra”] trahentem /iactantemque útroque capút crassúmque cruorem / ore reiectantem multosque [sic for “mixtosque”] in sanguine dúcúnt / Hic victor súperans animis laúroque [sic for “tauroque”] súperbús etc. / Dixit: et [here “adverso” is crossed out] adversi contra [the former word added with a carrot, and the following “stetit contra” crossed out] ora iúvenci / :Dúrosque, redúcta / Libravit dextra media inter cornúa cestus, / ardúus effractoque illsit [sic for “inlisit”] in ossa cerebro / sternitúr exanimisque tremens [here “que” crossed out] procúmbit húmibos / Virg.ibid.”; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: “61”.