School of Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
Head of a Man Blowing a Horn. Verso: Crowned Head of Juno
4 1/8 x 3 1/2 inches (104 x 88 mm)
Black and red chalk, with white chalk (now rubbed), on paper; trace of a framing line in brown ink; verso in black chalk.
I, 234a
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on part of old mount underneath the drawing, in Roupell's hand, in black ink, "RPR / Rubens / Sir Thos Lawrence's Coll. / Sketch for the man blowing the horn in the / picture of the Boar Hunt".
Associated names
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Roupell, Robert Prioleau, 1798-1886, former owner.
Riggall, Edward, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Roupell, Robert Prioleau, 1798-1886, former owner.
Riggall, Edward, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
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. 154, no. 321, repr.
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