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A Sheet of Anatomical Studies
Provenance
Sir Roger Newdigate (sometimes spelled Newdegate), 5th Baronet (1719–1806), from 1738/40; Newdegate Settlement, London; sold, Christie’s, London, July 6, 1987, lot 65; Bernard Quaritch Ltd, London; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1992; Elmer Seibel, Boston; Katrin Bellinger, Munich; Christopher Rupp, New York, 1997; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 23, 2001, lot 156; W. M. Brady & Co., New York; Horace Wood Brock, Gloucester, Massachusetts and New York, 2001 until 2016; Sold by Stephen Ongpin, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.
Exhibition history
Antwerp, Rubens Cantoor: een verzamling tekeningen ontstaan in Rubens’ atelier, 15 May–27 June, 1993, pp. 57 (color ill.), 97, cat. 7. New York, Katrin Bellinger, Kunstandel, and W. M. Brady & Co. at W. M. Brady & Co., Old Master Drawings, May 8 – 31, 1997, cat. no. 13 ( color ill.). New York, W. M. Brady & Co. and Thomas Williams Fine Art at W. M. Brady & Co., Old Master Drawings, May 9 – 25, 2001, cat. no. 16, (color ill.). Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, Jan. 22–May 17, 2009, pp. 12 (color ill.), 13, 90–92, 149, cat. 1. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 56, 57 (ill.), 313, 335, (ill.), cat. 11, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Michael Jaffé, “Rubens’s Anatomy Book,” in Old Master Drawings, Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., London, 6–7 July 1987, pp. 78–79, lot 65. Anne-Marie Logan, Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings, exh. Cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004), p. 98, fig. 53 (verso). Anne-Marie Logan, “Rubens’s Drawings after Julius Held,” Oud Holland 120, no. ¾ (2007), p. 165. Clifford S. Ackley, “Master Drawings from the Collection of Horace Wood Brock,” The Magazine Antiques 175:2 (February 2009), pp. 52–53, 56, fig. 1. Domenico Laurenza, “Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy: Images from a Scientific Revolution,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin LXIX:3 (2012), pp. 40, 43, fig. 60.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Peter Paul Rubens / Flemish, 1577-1640
- Date
- 1600/10
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27.1 × 18.8 cm (10 11/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Flanders
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Acquisition Fund
- Accession no.
- 2016.143
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