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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