Two Naked Young Men and a Medallion of Leda and the Swan (retouching on copy after Annibale Carracci)
Drawing
c.1630 (drawn)
c.1630 (drawn)
| Artist/Maker |
Drawing 'Two Naked Young Men and a Medallion of Leda and the Swan, by Peter Paul Rubens (retouching on copy after Annibale Carracci), brush in varying shades of brown, c.1630
Object details
| Object type | |
| Title | Two Naked Young Men and a Medallion of Leda and the Swan (retouching on copy after Annibale Carracci) (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Brush in varying shades of brown, heightened with white, over black chalk, on yellow tinted paper; some of the chalk lines on the original sheet of paper have been incised. |
| Brief description | Drawing 'Two Naked Young Men and a Medallion of Leda and the Swan, by Peter Paul Rubens (retouching on copy after Annibale Carracci), brush in varying shades of brown, c.1630 |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed by Rubens at lower right, in pale brown ink, Annibal Carracci (surname difficult to read); on verso, at top, in brown ink (with Richardson sen.’s shelfmarks), Zd.41 / ZC; and below this, in graphite, Portions of Intr. Dec. of the Farnese Palace Rome / by Annibale Carracci / The subject of Leda being substituted / for that of Apollo and Marsyas. |
| Object history | Prosper Henry Lankrink (1628–92), London (L. 2090); Jonathan Richardson sen. (1667–1745), London (L. 2184); Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London (L. 2445) (as listed in Inventory of the Collection of Drawings by Old Masters Formed by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., drawn up while the Collection was still in his House, duplicated typescript, NAL, V&A, fol. 77, ‘Study of part of a Frieze in the Farnese Gallery, an interesting study’); Lawrence–Woodburn sale, London, Christie’s, 7 June 1860, lot 797; from which bought for the museum (L. 1957) for £8. 8s. 0d. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. II, Cat. 530, illus. p.461. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 2307 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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