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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.524
People
Attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish (Siegen, Westphalia 1577 - 1640 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
A Study for the Figure of Christ, from "The Raising of the Cross"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297059

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk and black wash on light tan antique laid paper, mounted overall
Dimensions
44.9 x 36 cm (17 11/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: hunter's horn

    X ray exists of watermark, Burroughs no. 5002, Straus.8756) horn, similar to 1936.123, 1949.3
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: HW No [illegible] [underlined]
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: Lx/cx
  • label: former label, brown ink: for / The Fogg Art Museum / Cambridge, Massachusetts / Loan 3/2/38 / From G.L.W. 15 East 81st Street / (Ex. collection Sir Thos. Lawrence / " " R. Madrazo)
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: V Dijck
  • blind stamp: lower left, blind stamp: L. 2445 (Thomas Lawrence)
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: 2 [illegible words] 2000-
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower center, graphite: A. van Dyck

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Lawrence, London (L. 2445, without his mark). R. Madrazo. Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.524
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gustav Glück, "Rubens' Kreuzaufrichtungsaltar", Belgische Kunstdenkmäler, Bruckmann Verlag (Munich, 1923), pp. 161-184, p. 172, fig. 134, repr.
  • Gustav Glück and Franz Martin Haberditzl, Die Handzeichnungen von Peter Paul Rubens, Julius Bard (Berlin, Germany, 1928), cat. no. 62, p. 36, repr. pl. 62
  • Gustav Glück, "Rubens' Kreuzaufrichtungsaltar", Rubens, Van Dyck, und ihr Kreis, Verlag A. Schroll & Co., g.m.b.h. (Vienna, Italy, 1933), pp. 56-81, 381-383, pp. 70, 381 (n. e), repr. p. 69, fig. 41
  • Jan-Albert Goris and Julius S. Held, Rubens in America, Pantheon Books (New York and Antwerp, 1947), cat. no. 103, p. 42
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 15, p. 4 (as copy after Rubens)
  • Agnes Mongan, Drawings & Oil Sketches: Rubens from American Collections, exh. cat., President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA, 1956), p. 15, under cat. no. 8
  • Dr. Ludwig Burchard and Roger A. d'Hulst, Tekeningen van P.P. Rubens, exh. cat., Uitgeverij Ontwikkeling (Antwerp, 1956), under cat. no. 34, p. 48
  • Günter Aust, “Entwurf und Ausführung bei Rubens", Walraf-Richartz Jahrbuch, M. DuMont Schauberg (Cologne, 1958), vol. 20, pp. 163-212, p. 168 (n. 11)
  • Dr. Ludwig Burchard and Roger A. d'Hulst, Rubens Drawings, Arcade Press (Brussels, 1963), vol. 1, under cat. no. 55, p. 95
  • Mrs. Colles Baxter Larkin, "Rubens: A Variety of Interests" (unpublished manuscript, Fogg Art Museum, 1974). Typewritten brochure that accompanied the exhibition of the same title at the Fogg Art Museum, 23 May - 30 June 1974., no. 16
  • Hans Kauffmann, "Formen der Begegnung in der Bildkunst von Rubens", Peter Paul Rubens: Werk und Nachraum, Wilhelm Fink (Augsburg, 1981), pp. 69-88, pp. 75, 87 (n. 14)
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), under cat. no. 269, p. 231
  • Catherine Whistler and Jeremy Wood, ed., Rubens in Oxford: an Exhibition of Drawings from Christ Church and the Ashmolean Museum, exh. cat., P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. (London, 1988), under cat. no. 3, p. 26
  • J. R. Judson, Rubens The Passion of Christ, Harvey Miller/Brepols Publishers (Turnhout, Belgium, 2000), cat. no. 20b, pp. 98-99, repr. fig. 65
  • Anne-Marie Logan and Michiel C. Plomp, Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York/New Haven and London, 2004), p. 155 (n. 4)
  • Anne-Marie Logan and Kristin Lohse Belkin, The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens: A Critical Catalogue, Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium, 2021), vol. 2, pp. 95-97, 100, fig. 343a

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
  • Rubens: A Variety of Interests, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/23/1974 - 06/30/1974

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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Verification Level

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