LOT DETAILS

Materials:

red chalk, pen and brown ink,brown wash, heightened with white-yellow, on various pieces of irregularly cut paper glued together

Measurements:

9.29 in. (23.60 cm.) (height) by 14.53 in. (36.90 cm.) (width)

Literature:

J. Wood, Rubens. Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists. (2), Italian Artists. I, Raphael and his School (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI, 2), London-Turnhout, 2010, p. 75, fig. 10.

Provenance:

Padre Sebastiano Resta (L. 2981 and 2992), with his number ‘l. 312’, mounted on an album page with inscription ‘Habe allievo di Vandyke’ (recto) and ‘RVBENS [partly cut] in Parigi dipinse un Portico con qlla occasione copio le/ cose dell’Abb.e Primaticcio’ (verso). Giovanni Matteo Marchetti, bishop of Arezzo, 1698, and by descent to Cavaliere Marchetti de Pistoia, 1704. John, Lord Somers (L. 2981), 1710; London, 16 May 1717. Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 9 July 2002, lot 12.