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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.287
People
Copy after Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish (Siegen, Westphalia 1577 - 1640 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Head of a Young Girl
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th-17th century
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297217

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black, red, and white chalk and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
actual: 25.6 x 19.6 cm (10 1/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: P
  • watermark: none visible. Mount is also too thick for beta radiography

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Hippolyte Dreux, his sale; [Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 May 1902, lot 55]. Wildenstein Gallery, New York, Paris, sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (L. 2091, without his mark), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1958.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1958
Object Number
1958.287
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Drawings by Rubens and Van Dyck from the National Gallery", British Museum Quarterly (1935), vol. 10, p. 15
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 487, pp. 252-3; vol. 2, repr. fig. 487 as Rubens(?)
  • Jan-Albert Goris and Julius S. Held, Rubens in America, Pantheon Books (New York and Antwerp, 1947), cat. no. 119, p. 43
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 19, p. 4 (as Peter Paul Rubens)
  • Julius S. Held, Rubens Selected Drawings, Phaidon Press (London, 1959), vol. 1, p. 13
  • 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

  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • 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

Verification Level

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