1965.229: Study after the Painting "Saint Ignatius Loyola Healing Those Possessed" by Rubens

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.229

People

Anthony van Dyck, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1599 - 1641 London)

Title

Study after the Painting "Saint Ignatius Loyola Healing Those Possessed" by Rubens

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296371

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black, white and red chalk, charcoal, brown wash and brown ink on gray antique laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

25.4 x 38 cm (10 x 14 15/16 in.)
mount: 31.9 x 44.1 cm (12 9/16 x 17 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: lower right, black ink and brown ink, stamp and pen: L. 2214 (Richard Houlditch) [with accompanying incription] 7
• collector's mark: lower right, black ink, stamp: L. 2184 (Jonathan Richardson, Sr.)
• watermark: none visible

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Richard Houlditch, London (L. 2214 with his mark). Jonathan Richardson Sr., London, (L. 2184 with his mark). John, Lord Northwick, offered for sale; [Sotheby's, London, 1-4 Nov 1920, lot 195, bought in], sold; [Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1921, lot 70]. [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (L. 2091 without his mark), bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.229

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 488, pp. 253-4; vol. 2, repr. fig. 253 as Rubens (?)
• Jan-Albert Goris and Julius S. Held, Rubens in America, Pantheon Books (New York and Antwerp, 1947), cat. no. A. 94, p. 55
• An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 21, p. 5 (as Rubens?)
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 207

Exhibition History

• An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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