Peter Paul Rubens

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Peter Paul Rubens

1577-1640

Meeting of Abraham and Melchisedek; Four Other Biblical Figures

ca. 1595

Pen and brown ink on paper.

7 13/16 x 5 3/16 inches (199 x 132 mm)

Gift of Otto Manley.

1984.47

Notes:

Watermark: fragment, lower tip of fleur-de-lis inscribed in a circle (cf. Heawood 1629: Rome 1602).
Copied after Tobias Stimmer, "Neue Künstliche Figuren Biblischer Historien", Basel, 1576, unpaginated: "Genes. XIII. Melchisedech speiset und segenet Abraham; Genes. XVIII. Abrams Gastfreihait wol belonet; III. Reg. X. Der weisest Richter auf dem schönsten stul; III. Reg. X. II. Paral. IX. Die Weisen besuchen ainander".

Provenance:

Charles Fairfax Murray, London; Victor Ezekiel; his sale London, Sotheby's, 7 February 1956, lot 1659 (parcel of drawings to Koblitz for £125.0.0); Baron Koblitz; Edmund Schilling, London; private collection, New York.

Associated names:

Stimmer, Tobias, 1539-1584, Copy after.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Ezekiel, Victor, former owner.
Koblitz, Baron, former owner.
Schilling, Edmund, 1888-1974, former owner.
Manley, Otto, -1989, former owner.

Bibliography:

Tuinen, Ilona van. Power and Grace : Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens. New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2018, page 11, fig. 1 (repr.)
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 137, no. 295.

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