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Inscription

upper right in brown ink: A.VITELIVS. / GERMAN.IMP. / AUG.P.M.TR.P; across top verso in brown ink: (10 lines of Italian, Latin, and Greek concerning antique medals ot coins); seventeenth century pen "P.P. Rubens/4.3"; later blue chalk "Rubens"

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely [1618-1680] (Lugt 2092), London; Dr. and Mrs. Victor Bloch, London; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 November 1964, lot 64); Hallsborough Gallery, London; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1975, lot 194); purchased (cia Yvonne tan Bunzl) by NGA, 1975.

Exhibition History

1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, pp. 44-45.
1988
Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 26.

Bibliography

1971
Disegni veronesi del cinquecento. Exh. cat. Neri Pozza, Venice, 1971: 44-45.

1974
Magagnato, L. 50 ANNI DI PITTURA VERONESE 1580-1630, Verona: 1974: 59, 90-91.
1975
Sotheby's, London, 7/4/75: 194.
1977
Bailey, Stephen Bailey, “Metamorphoses of the Grimani ‘Vitellius’" The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal. 5, 1977: 114

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