ID 1176946
Lot 78 | SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN, WESTPHALIA 1577-1640 ANTWERP)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 700 000
The Virgin and Child of the Rosary
oil on panel, marouflaged
16 7⁄8 x 13 ½ in (42.8 x 34.3 cm)
Provenance
with Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1879.
with Eugène Fischhof, Paris (according to an inscription on the reverse).
with Julius Weitzner, New York, by 1930 (according to Ludwig Burchard's personal files).
Edward Leavitt Howe (1870-1952), Princeton, by whom bought from the above in 1942 (on consignment with Schaeffer Galleries between 1943 and November 1945) and by descent to his wife,
Adelaide Foster Howe (1901-1991), Princeton.
[From a Private Collection]; Christie's, New York, 18 January 1984, lot 163.
Literature
M. Rooses, Rubens Sa vie et ses ouevres, Paris, 1903, p. 543.
J.A. Goris and J.S. Held, Rubens in America, New York, 1947, p. 34, no. 55.
W.R. Valentiner, 'Rubens Paintings in America,' The Art Quarterly, IX, 1946, p. 163, no. 92.
E. Larsen, P.P. Rubens, with a complete catalogue of his works in America, Antwerp, 1952, p. 217-218, no. 72.
J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: A Critical Catalogue, I, Princeton, 1980, p. 522-523, no. 386; II, pl. 377.
M. Jaffé, Catalogo Completo Rubens, Milan, 1989, p. 328, no. 105, illustrated.
Exhibited
Detroit, Institute of Arts, An Exhibition Sixty Paintings and Drawings by Rubens, 1936, n.p., no. 50.
New York, Schaeffer & Brandt, Inc., Peter Paul Rubens: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the United Hospital Fund of New York, 23 November - 19 December 1942, no. 22 (loaned by Howe).
Inscribed
Anonymous engraving dedicated by A. Hendricx in 1693 to Cornelis de Bie.
| Artist: | Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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