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A Walking Bear Seen from Behind

Drawing
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Rubens, Peter Paul (formerly attributed to)
Place of origin
Belgium (drawn)

Study, from behind, of a bear walking to the left; Drawn in black chalk.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleA Walking Bear Seen from Behind (published title)
Materials and techniques
Black chalk
Black Chalk
Paper
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Drawing 'A Walking Bear Seen from Behind', Peter Paul Rubens (formerly attributed to), black chalk
Physical description
Study, from behind, of a bear walking to the left; Drawn in black chalk.
Dimensions
  • Height: 200mm
  • Width: 257mm
Style
Flemish School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 522. Inscribed on fragment attached to the mount, in pencil: by Dyce, Rubens; and in a nineteenth-century hand (with the original Dyce inv. no.), 191.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subject depicted
Bear
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2014), vol. II, cat. 533, pp.463-64
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.522

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Record createdMarch 30, 2009
Record URL
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