Lion Hunt, c. 1615-1618

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Medium

pen and brown ink with brownish-gray wash over black chalk, some red chalk at the lower left and at bottom center, touches of heightening with white, vertical fold through the center, traced for transfer

Dimensions

overall: 44.1 x 59.9 cm (17 3/8 x 23 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1984.81.1

Artists / Makers

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

Pieter Claesz Soutman (artist) Dutch, 1580 - 1657

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left in pen and brown ink on the shield: AV Dyck

Provenance

(sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 July 1966, lot 65); (H. Shickman Gallery, New York); David Tunick, New York (1984)

Associated Names

Shickman Gallery, Herman
Sotheby's, London
Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

1993: Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994, no. 65, as attributed to Soutman, after Rubens.

Bibliography

1986: Balis, Arnout. Landscape and Hunting Scenes, II. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, part XVIII, Oxford, 1986: no. 6, copy 6, fig. 55.