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Head of a Sphinx, Attributed to Sir Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)

h. 47.6 x w. 37.5 cm

Black and white chalk on brown paper

Provenance

Padre Sebastiano Resta, an Italian priest, collector and historian of old master drawings, 1635-1714
Lord John Somers, 1651-1716
Jonathan Richardson, an English artist, collector of drawings, and writer on art., Richardson’s handwritten inscription on the verso of the mount with his shelfmark “P.19…No.43. Zt 21. Zt” and attribution “This Dr: in my Ld. Sommers’ collection stood Thus ascrib’d, but I believe ’tis of Rubens”
Jan van Rijmsdijk, a Dutch painter, engraver and art collector, circa 1730 - circa 1790
Collection of Mrs H. Frohlich
Acquired from the above by P. & D. Colnaghi & co. Ltd, London, 20th July 1951, stock number 18409
Acquired from the above by Michael Jaffé, a British art historian, curator, and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (England) from 1973, London, to 1990 on 9th July 1953, cf: Colnaghi Drawings Stock Book A5, Stock book listing Colnaghi drawings stock, stock numbers A15343-20166, 1948-1954
Acquired at Christie’s, London, Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours, sale 7863, London, 7th July 2010, lot 343

Publications

Lansdowne Manuscripts 803 [Resta-Somers], fol. 16v, as '[Annibale Carracci] A Woman's Head and Wings', n.d., p. 19
Colnaghi & Co., COL3/2/5, Drawings Stock Book A5, 1948-1954, London, 1948-1954
P. & D. Colnaghi & co., "no. 16 (exh. cat.)", Old Master Drawings, London, n.d.
M. Jaffé, Rubens' Drawings at Antwerp, The Burlington Magazine, Vol 98, N°. 642, Sept. 1956, p. 314
M. Jaffé, Jacob Jordaens 1593-1678, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1968-1969, p. 165, under no. 159, pl. IV
J. Wood, “Padre Resta’s Flemish Drawing. Van Diepenbeeck, Van Thulden, Rubens, and the School of Fontainebleau”, Master Drawings, Volume 28, N° 1, Spring 1990, p. 45, n. 20
Christie’s, London, Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours, 7th July 2010
D. Alberge, Rubens and Neo-Classical Art, in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 29, fig. 5
V. Herremans, Peter Paul Rubens and the decoration of the Jesuit church in Antwerp, Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 2013-2014 (Antwerp Royal Museum Annual 2013-2014), 2017, pp. 59 and 66
R. Fabri & P. Lombaerde, Rubens. The Jesuit Church of Antwerp” (Based on a manuscript by Frans Baudouin [1920-2005]), Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXIII: Architecture and Sculpture, 3, Harvey Miller Publishers, 2018, pp. 163-166, illustration on page 169, fig.63
P. Delsaerdt & E. Van Thielen (ed.), Baroque Influencers, Jesuits, Rubens, and the Arts of Persuasion, Antwerp, 2023, pp. 146 – 147, fig. 10

Exhibitions

Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi Gallery, London, UK, 29th April 1952 — 30th May 1952
MACM (Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins), Mougins, France, june 2011 - present day
Baroque Influencers, Jesuits, Rubens, and the Arts of Persuasion, The Snijders & Rockox House Museum (1 of 3 locations), Antwerp, Belgium, 22nd April 2023 — 16th July 2023

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Head of a Sphinx Peter Paul Rubens

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