Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

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Property from the Collection of Ellen Canrobert Isles de Saint Phalle

Workshop of Sir Peter Paul Rubens

St. Francis of Assisi receiving the Infant Christ

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July 5, 10:16 AM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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Property from the Collection of Ellen Canrobert Isles de Saint Phalle

Workshop of Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp

St. Francis of Assisi receiving the Infant Christ


Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, indented for transfer;

Bears numbering in brown ink, lower right: 59

303 by 204 mm

Possibly Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), Paris (the pen numbering lower right is very similar to his: L.3621)
Bernardus de Bosch, Amsterdam, sale, 10 March 1817;
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), London;
Charles Sackville Bale (1791-1880), London (L.640), his sale, London, Christie’s, 9-14 June 1881, lot 2447;
Jacques Mathey, Paris
M. Rooses, L’Oeuvre de P.P. Rubens, Antwerp 1888, vol. 2, p. 253 (as Rubens);
J. Müller Hofstede, 'Beiträge zum zeichnerischen Werk von Rubens', Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch, XXVII, 1965, pp. 335-38, reproduced, fig. 237 (as Rubens);
H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum, Ludwig Burchard: Saints, VIII, London 1972-1973, vol. I, pp. 148-49, no. 95a, reproduced, fig. 168 (as Rubens)
London, The Woodburn Gallery, The Lawrence Gallery. First Exhibition.  A catalogue of one hundred original drawings by Sir P.P. Rubens Collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1835, p. 21, no. 87