Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules carrying the Erymanthian Boar

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Title

Johnson Manuscript page - Hercules carrying the Erymanthian Boar

Date of Production

(mid 18th century) 1725 - 1775

Medium

traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper; some graphite offset on verso from facing drawing

Dimensions

Height: 21.4 cm
Width: 15.6 cm

Object Number

MS.1978.PG.1.65 (fol. 63)

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: Recto, right centre edge, fragment: top of Arms of Genoa - a cross above stacked circles, the top circle containing a crescent (Paper 4 in Peter Bower's 2017 report).

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, graphite, folio number: "63".

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
McGrath, Elizabeth, Bert Schepers, Nils Büttner, Gregory Martin, Jeremy Wood, Eveliina Juntunen, Gerlinde Gruber and Fiona Healy, Mythological Subjects. II. Hercules to Olympus, CRLB XI, 2 vols., London, 2022
I, p. 50 note 11
Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, p. 99n64

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