Studies of Heads

Studies of Heads

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Peter Paul Rubens (after)

This eighteenth-century drawing copies the heads of the principal figures in a painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens and his workshop, The Capture of Samson, ca. 1620, now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. The two-chalk technique and the arrangement of heads on the page follows drawings made by the master.
Artist
Peter Paul Rubens (after)
(Flemish, 1577 - 1640)
Title
Studies of Heads
Date
18th century
Medium
Black and white chalk on buff paper
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Miss Charlotte C. Gregory
Accession No.
64.15.12
Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
Geography
Belgium

Related

Collection of Wm. Mayor (London); Before 1921, collection of M. M. Oliver; 2 December 1921, sold by F. R. Meatyard (London) to Charles Noble Gregory (Northbrook, IL); 1932, Wisconsin State Historical Society; 1964, Charlotte C. Gregory (Northbrook, IL) [niece of Charles Noble Gregory] through inheritance; 1964, gifted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called the Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Madison Art Center. "Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings From The University of Wisconsin Collections." Madison, WI: The Madison Art Association, 1965.
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 1, No. 3, May/June 1985. p. 5

  • Old Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 7/23/2005–10/9/2005
  • Hand of the Master, The: Drawings from the Elvehjem’s Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 5/11/1985–7/28/1985
  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings from the University of Wisconsin Collections: Madison Art Center, 11/21/1965–12/11/1965

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