Battle of Nude Men

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Artist, Flemish, 1577 - 1640

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Artwork overview

  • 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

  • Credit Line

    Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1984.3.57

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Julius S. Held

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

across top verso in red chalk: Giulio Romano

Wikidata ID

Q64632554

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