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Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Battle of Nude Men

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink over black chalk on four irregularly cut pieces of two types of buff laid paper; laid down and with corner pieces added

Dimensions

support: 14.1 x 25.2 cm (5 9/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1984.3.57

Artists / Makers

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (artist) Flemish, 1577 - 1640

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Inscription

across top verso in red chalk: Giulio Romano

Provenance

Julius S. Held

Associated Names

Held, Julius S., Professor

Exhibition History

1970: Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 39.

2005: Rubens: A Master in the Making, The National Gallery, London, 2005 - 2006, no. 6.

2017: Rubens: The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna; Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, 2017, no. 9.

Bibliography

1966: Jaffe 1966, p.51.

1978: Logan, Anne-Marie. "Some Early Drawings by Rubens." Gentse Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis 24 (1976-1978):105-107, fig. 1.

1979: Master drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held. Exh cat. Burlington, VT, Robert Hull Fleming Museum 1979: 9.

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