SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS
Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp
Bust of a Hellenistic Ruler, after the Antique
Inscribed,¹ lower center, Rubens from the Antique; the mat inscribed, lower center, in a later hand, P. Lankrink/Charles Fairfax Murray
Black chalk heightened with traces of white chalk and gouache on beige paper;² watermark, encircled pilgrim (cf. Briquet 7576, “Udine c. 1593”)
12 ½ x 9 inches
317 x 228 mm
Provenance
Prosper Henry Lankrink (1628-1692), London (Lugt 2090)
Charles Fairfax Murray, London (?)³
Victor Koch (c. 1868-after 1946), London, by 1930 (his sale: London, Sotheby’s, 29 June 1949, lot 111; bought in), sold by Koch in 1952 to
Leo Franklyn, London
Possibly, Dr. F. Rothmann, London⁴
Sale: Basel, Auctiones S. A., Vente publique no. 2, “Bedeutende Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus drei Sammlungen,” 26 November 1970, lot 69, illustrated
Sale: London, Christie’s, 30 March 1971, lot 77, illustrated (bt. Woodner)
Ian Woodner (1903-1990), New York
Private collection, New York
Exhibitions
New York, William H. Schab Gallery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century,1973-74, cat. no. 81, illustrated
Literature
J. Müller-Hofstede, “Zum zeichnerischen Werk Rubens,” in Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch, XXVII (1965), fig. 211
M. Jaffé, Rubens and Italy, Oxford, 1977, p. 82, footnote no. 58 on p. 117
M. van der Meulen, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, London 1994-95, Part XXIII, vol. I, p. 61; vol. 2, p. 148, cat. no. 127; vol. 3, fig. 248
Drawn circa 1606-08
PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK