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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.335
People
Jacques Jordaens, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1593 - 1678 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Hermes
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298564

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red and black chalk, brown wash, red watercolor, and white and brown opaque watercolor, on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in graphite; added strip at lower right, perhaps not original
Dimensions
47.1 x 27.8 cm (18 9/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
mount: 57.4 x 39.4 cm (22 5/8 x 15 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper left, red chalk: C
  • collector's mark: primary mount, verso, lower left, black ink, stamp: L. 549 (Sir Charles Greville)
  • inscription: secondary mount, lower right, under drawing, graphite: 6741 / ... [illegible, erased]
  • watermark: Beta will not be made. Mount is too thick.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sir Charles Greville (L. 549, lower left), by descent; to his nephew, George Guy Greville, Fourth Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle, sold; [Christie’s, London, 20 May 1896, lot 356 (as Rubens).] Charles A. Loeser, Florence; Bequest of Charles A. Loeser, 1932.335.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.335
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 486, p. 252, as Peter Paul Rubens
  • Jan-Albert Goris and Julius S. Held, Rubens in America, Pantheon Books (New York and Antwerp, 1947), cat. no. A. 96, pp. 55-56 (as pupil of Rubens)
  • Karl Feuchtmayr, Zu Kleinen Holzbildwerken von Jörg Petle im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst, Prestel Verlag (Munich, 1958-1959), vol. 9-10, pp. 256-262, p. 259
  • Theodor Müller and Alfred Schädler, Georg Petel 1601-1634, exh. cat., Hirmer Verlag (1964), p. 21, under no. 8
  • International Council of Museums, Augsburger Barock, exh. cat., ed. Christina Thom (Augsburg, 1968), p. 233, under no. 304, repr. fig. 134 (n.p.)
  • Svetlana Alpers, The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard (1971), vol. IX, p. 234, under cat. no. 39, repr. fig. 145 (as after Rubens)
  • Karl Feuchtmayr and Alfred Schädler, Georg Petel 1601/2-1634, Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft (Berlin, 1973), p. 180, under cat. no. 140
  • Julius S. Held, [Review of d'Hulst catalogue], The Art Bulletin (1978 (December)), vol. LX, no. 4, p. 726, repr. p. 727, fig. 8 (as Jordaens?)
  • Roger A. d'Hulst, "Jordaens Drawings: Supplement I", Master Drawings (1980 (Winter)), vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 360-70, pp. 360, 362-63, cat. no. A52a, repr. pl. 18
  • Dessins anciens et du XIXe siècle, auct. cat., Nouveau Drouot (Paris, 26 June 1987), under lot no. 123
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella A") (as Rubens)
  • Works on Paper, auct. cat., Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd. and Marty de Cambiare (London/Paris, 2019), p. 32, fig. 2
  • Austeja Mackelaite, "Recent Acquisition: Mercury Standing, by Jacob Jordaens", The Morgan Blog, The Morgan Library & Museum (May 21, 2020), https://www.themorgan.org/blog/recent-acquisition-mercury-standing-jacob-jordaens#.Xu-VoICHz7Y.email, accessed March 17, 2022
  • John Marciari and Jane Turner, ed., Far and Away: Drawings form the Clement C. Moore Collection, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum and Paul Holberton Publishing (New York, 2024), p. 94, 96, repr. as fig. 26.2

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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