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Letter from Sir Peter Paul Rubens to Sir Balthasar Gerbier, late April/May 1640 (undated) (recto and verso)

Maker

(Artists)
1577-1640

Title

Letter from Sir Peter Paul Rubens to Sir Balthasar Gerbier, late April/May 1640 (undated) (recto and verso)

Date of Production

(late April/May) 1640

Medium

Pen and brown ink on paper

Accession Number

MS.1978.PG.2.2

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

personal correspondence

Provenance

William Stevenson Fitch, of Ipswich, presented to Dawson Turner 1832 (recorded in inscription included in album), sold Puttick and Simpson, 6 June 1859 (4th day), lot 408; 7th Duke of Newcastle (Clumber Library), sold Sotheby's 16 February 1938 (9th day), lot 1298; Christopher Norris (by 1955); Martin B Asscher, sold Sotheby's 10 April 1961, lot 131; acquired at sale by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate
Collection
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 06/10/1988-08/01/1989

Literature

Rubens - Paintings, Drawings and Prints in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988-1989
cat. no. 60
no. 60 and Foreward and pp. 50, 55 under no. 62
Fig. p. p. 54

Inscriptions

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