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Paulus Pontius after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Two Studies of an Elderly Man's Head

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Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper, verso blackened for transfer

Dimensions

overall: 19.3 x 14.5 cm (7 5/8 x 5 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Julius S. Held Collection

Accession Number

1985.1.46

Artists / Makers

Paulus Pontius (artist) Flemish, 1603 - 1658

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

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Inscription

later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: Anto van Dy; lower right verso in graphite: 26 108- / +110-23 P

Provenance

Julius S. Held [1905-2002], by 1979; gift 1985 to NGA.

Associated Names

Held, Julius S., Professor

Exhibition History

1979: Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; traveling exhibition, 1979, no. 15.

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