Retouched by Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
Psyche Offering the Jar of Water to Venus. Verso: Two River Gods
ca. 1600-1608
12 1/8 x 9 inches (308 x 228 mm)
Red chalk, accented with point of brush and dark red chalk wash, on paper; highlight of white oil paint in the eye of Psyche and small correction in same medium in upper part of the drapery at the left of Venus; verso: red chalk.
I, 231a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
The drawing is after one of the pendentives illustrating the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche in the "Sala di Psyche" of the Villa Farnesina in Rome. The sketch on the verso is also based on one of the frescoes of the Loggia of Psyche.
The drawing is after one of the pendentives illustrating the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche in the "Sala di Psyche" of the Villa Farnesina in Rome. The sketch on the verso is also based on one of the frescoes of the Loggia of Psyche.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered on verso, in brown ink, "12010".
Associated names
Anonymous, Flemish School, 17th cent., artist.
Raphael, 1483-1520, Copy after, artist.
Lankrink, Prosper Henricus, former owner.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Riggall, Edward, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Raphael, 1483-1520, Copy after, artist.
Lankrink, Prosper Henricus, former owner.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Riggall, Edward, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Tuinen, Ilona van. Power and Grace : Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens. New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2018, page 14, fig. 2 (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. 138, no. 296, 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. 138, no. 296, repr.
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