Venus Lamenting Adonis, c. 1608-1612

Inscription

upper center in pen and brown ink: Spiritum / morientis / excipit ore

Provenance

T. J. Bell (sale, London, Sotheby's, 26 November 1929, as Van Dyck); Ludwig Burchard, London

Exhibition History

1933

Rubens-Tentoonstelling, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1933, no. 103.

1950

A Loan Exhibition of Works by Peter Paul Rubens, Wildenstein and Co., London, 1950, no. 44.

1956

Tekeningen van P. P. Rubens, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, 1956, no. 46.

1969

In Memoriam, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, unnumbered checklist.

1978

Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 62.

1994

Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994, no. 41.

2005

Rubens: A Master in the Making, The National Gallery, London, 2005 - 2006, no. 15.

2017

Rubens: The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna; Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, 2017, no. 84,

Bibliography

1959

Held, Julius S. Rubens, Selected Drawings. 2 vols. New York, 1959: 1: no. 2921f.

1977

Rowlands, John. Rubens: Drawings and Sketches. Exh. cat. British Museum. London, 1977: no. 60.

1984

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 671, no. 1067, color repro.

1986

Held, Julius S. Rubens: Selected Drawings. Mt. Kisco, 1986: no. 58, fig. 57 (reproduced in reverse).

1987

Logan, Anne-Marie. Review of Julius S. Held. Rubens: Selected Drawings in Master Drawings XXV (1987): 71.

1995

Martinez, Benjamin and Jacqueline Block. Visual Forces: An Introduction to Design. 2nd edition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995: 100, fig. B.

1999

Spivey, Nigel. "Pathos by Formula, The story of Raphael's Entombment," Apollo 150, no. 449 (July 1999): 51, fig. 6.

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