WORKSHOP OF PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP)

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ID 1076489
Lot 9 | WORKSHOP OF PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP)
WORKSHOP OF PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP)

Head of a sphinx in profile

black chalk, heightened with white, on light brown paper

18 ¾ x 15 in. (47.6 x 38.1 cm.)

(2)together with a copy attributed to the circle of Peter Paul Rubens, Head of sphinx in profile, red chalk (ii)

20 x 14 5⁄8 in. (50.6 x 37.3 cm.)





Provenance

i:

Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714), Rome (L. 2992).

John, Lord Somers (1651-1716) (L. 2981).

Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (1667-1745), London, (L. 2184, his mount with associated shelfmarks ‘P. 19 [...]/ N. 43: Zt. 21 zt’, and the attribution ‘This Dr: in my L.d Somers’s/ collection stood Thus ascrib’d,/ but I believe ’tis of Rubens'.

Jan van Rijmsdijk (active 1730-1788⁄1789), London (L. 2167).

Mrs. H. Fröhlich.

with P. & D. Colnaghi, London (Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, April-May 1952, no. 16, as by Rubens).

Acquired from the above by Michael Jaffé (1923-1997), Cambridge; his heirs ; Christie’s, London, 7 July 2010, lot 343 (as attributed to Rubens).

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.



ii:

E.A. Wringham, Alnwick; Sotheby’s, London, 22 July 1965, lot 147 (without attribution).

Michael Jaffé (1923-1997), Cambridge; his heirs; Christie’s, London online, 27 November - 5 December 2019, part of lot 17 (as Circle of Rubens).

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.



Literature

i:

M. Jaffé, ‘Rubens’ Drawings at Antwerp’, The Burlington Magazine, XCVIII, no. 642, September 1956, p. 314, n. 5 (as by Rubens).

M. Jaffé, Jacob Jordaens 1593-1678, exhib. cat., Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1968-1969, p. 165, under no. 159, pl. IV (as by Rubens).

J. Wood, ‘Padre Resta’s Flemish Drawings. Van Diepenbeeck, Van Thulden, Rubens, and the School of Fontainebleau’, Master Drawings, XXVIII, no. 1, Spring 1990, p. 45, n. 20 (citing Landsowne MS. 802 at the British Library, London, as Annibale Carracci).

M. Merrony, Mougins Museum of Classcial Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 296 (as by Rubens).

V. Herremans, ‘Peter Paul Rubens and the Decoration of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp’, Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten/Antwerp Royal Museum Annual 2013-2014, Antwerp, 2017, p. 59 (as by Rubens).

R. Fabri and P. Lombaerde, Rubens. The Jesuit Church of Antwerp, London and Turnhout 2018 (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XXII (3)), pp. 29, 86, 117, 119, 163-166, no. 7a, fig. 63 (as attributed to Rubens or retouched by him).

A.-M. Logan and K. Lohse Belkin, The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens. A Critical Catalogue. Volume Two. 1609-1620, Turnhout, 2022, I, p. 294, under no. 4 (as not by Rubens).



ii:

R.-A. d’Hulst, ‘Jordaens’, The Art Bulletin, LI, 1969, p. 384 (as not by Jordaens).

Fabri and Lombaerde, op. cit., p. 164, under no. 70, fig. 70, p. 238 (as after Rubens).



Exhibited

i:

Helsinki, Suomen Taideakatemia Ateneum, P.P. Rubens. Luonnoksia ja piirustuksia sekä grafiikkaa mestarin teosten mukaan/ P.P. Rubens. Skisser och teckningar samt grafik efter mästarens verk, 1952-1953, no. 49 (as by Rubens).

Antwerp, Snijders & Rockox House Museum, Baroque Influencers. Jesuits, Rubens, and the Arts of Persuasion, 2023, p. 146, fig. 10, p. 200 (as attributed Rubens, or as Annibale Carracci retouched by Rubens; essay by R. Fabri and P. Lombaerde).

Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, 2020-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA94MA).



ii:

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Jacob Jordaens 1593-1678, 1968-1969, no. 159, ill. (as by Jacob Jordaens after Rubens; catalogue by M. Jaffé).

Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, 2019-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA280MA).
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