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    Nude Youth in the Pose of the Spinario
    Peter Paul Rubens. Nude Youth in the Pose of the Spinario, 1610/16. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00006030

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    Nude Youth in the Pose of the Spinario

    by Peter Paul Rubens

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: Peter Paul Rubens f[ecit] 1577 + 1640"; lower right, in graphite: "Rubens" (partially erased)

    Provenance

    Unidentified collector [partially erased stamp, recto, lower left]. Private collection, Sweden, by 1977 [Jaffé 1977 and Cuzin 2000 as private collection, London]; sold, Christie’s, London, July 8, 2003, lot 96, to Richard and Mary Gray, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

    Exhibition history

    New York and London, Artemis/C. G. Boerner, Old Master Drawings and Paintings, 2004, cat. 5. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 32 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 100, 102 (ill.), 312-13, cat. 32, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 133, GC 32, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.

    Publications

    Michael Jaffé, Rubens and Italy (Ithaca, N.Y., 1977), pp. 73, 80, 115 n. 35, 116 n. 16; pl. 273. Anne-Marie Logan, “Rubens Exhibitions, 1977,” Master Drawings 15, no. 4 (Winter, 1977), pp. 412, under no. 14. Julius S. Held, Rubens: Selected Drawings (Oxford, 1986), p. 82, no. 39; p. 172, pl. 23. Marjon van der Muelen, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, vol 23, Copies after the Antique (H. Miller, 1994), vol. 1, pp. 80. Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Jean-René Gaborit, Alain Pasquier, eds., D’après l’antique, exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, 2000–01 (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2000), p. 419, under no. 222, pl. 222b. 
William O’Reilly, “Rubens: A Recently Rediscovered Drawing Inspired by the Antique,” Christie’s Magazine (June, July, August, 2003), pp. 68–69 (ill.). Adriano Aymonino and Anne Varick Lauder, Drawn from the the Antique: Artists and the Classical Ideal, exh. cat. (London: Sir John Soane’s Museum, 2015), under no. 9 (mistakenly as London, private collection).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Peter Paul Rubens / Flemish, 1577–1640
    Date
    1610/16
    Medium
    Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper
    Dimensions
    28 × 18.8 cm (11 1/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    drawings (visual works)
    Place
    Flanders
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
    Accession no.
    2019.863

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