National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Lion
  • Inscription
  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
  • Bibliography

Overview

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Inscription

18th c.? hand on verso: Cette belle etude dessine [sic] par Rubens / a Servi pour Le Suject de daniel / dans la fosse aux lions / elle a ete achete [sic]

Marks and Labels

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Provenance

According to an inscription on the back of the drawing, Marquis de Gouvernet (sale, Paris, 6-10 November 1775); purchased by Conseiller Nourri (sale, Paris, 24 February-14 March 1785); purchased by Conseiller de Saint-Maurice (sale, Paris, 1 February 1786). George Fenwick-Owen, Lether Melton (purchased in a mixed lot at Sotheby's in about 1930); Mrs. Denise Fenwick-Owen, London (sale, Sotheby's, London, 27 March 1969, no. 86); NGA purchase via Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, in 1969.

Exhibition History

1969
In Memoriam, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, unnumbered checklist.
1978
NGA Master Drawings 1978, p. 63.
1994
Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994, no. 44.
1998
A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998, no. 74.

Bibliography

1971
Cott, P.B., "Ailsa Mellon Bruce Gift," Connoisseur, 178:718 (1971): 253.
1978
King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 44-45, pl. 22.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 671, no. 1066, color repro.
1986
Mittler, Gene A. Art in Focus. Peoria, 1986: 253, fig. 14.10.
1989
d'Hulst, Roger A., and M. Vandenven. Rubens: The Old Testament (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part 3). London, 1989:57h
1997
Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997: 80-81, color repro.
1998
Wheelock, Arthur K. A Collector's Cabinet. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: no. 74.
2001
Mittler, Gene A. and James D. Howze. Creating and Understanding Drawings. New York, 2001: 78-9.
2010
Mayhew, Timothy David, Margo Ellis, and Supapan Seraphin. "Natural Black Chalk in Traditional Old Master Drawings." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 49, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2010): 85, fig. 2 (color; also reproduced on the cover).

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