Study of the Man Raised from the Dead and Two Studies of Legs in a Kneeling Position, for figures in "Miracles of St Francis Xavier"
Drawing
1617-1618 (Drawn)
1617-1618 (Drawn)
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On the principal sheet is depicted a man, wearing a loin cloth, seen in profile, sitting up supported on his hands, with legs stretched out; at upper right, on a separate attached piece of paper are two studies of a left leg, one seen from behind and the other in profile
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Black chalk, with some touches of white on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing, Study of a nude man raising his body from a recumbent position, and two studies of legs in a kneeling position, for figures in "Miracles of St Francis Xavier", by Peter Paul Rubens, Black chalk, with some touches of white, Flemish School, c.1617-18 |
| Physical description | On the principal sheet is depicted a man, wearing a loin cloth, seen in profile, sitting up supported on his hands, with legs stretched out; at upper right, on a separate attached piece of paper are two studies of a left leg, one seen from behind and the other in profile |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed in brown ink: at upper centre, P. P. Rubbens; and at bottom left, in another hand, Rubbens fecit uit’t grote autaar / Stuk van de Paters Jesuite te Antwerpen van St. Ignatius; and on verso: at upper right, in graphite, 2D 67; at lower right,in graphite, Rubens; at lower left, in black ink, 177; and at lower centre of backing sheet, in black ink (with the museum’s Dalton inv. nos.), D.904, 905–’0 |
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| Credit line | Dalton Bequest |
| Object history | Sir Benjamin West (1738–1820), London (L. 419); Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London (L. 2445); Miss Emily Dalton (1816/17–1900), Leicester, by whom bequeathed to the museum (NAL dry stamp on recto and Dalton Bequest purple ink stamp on verso; neither in Lugt), 1900. |
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| Associated object | D.905-1900 (Part) |
| 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.523, illus. p. 446 |
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| Accession number | D.904-1900 |
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| Record created | August 26, 2004 |
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