Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Sleeping Angelica and
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Description
Black chalk heightened with white and wash on paper laid down on period paper and decorated with gold
Inscribed (or signed) "P. P. Rubens" on the attached paper.
Provenance: Estate of Yehuda and Shula Prihar.
"Old Masters and 19th Century Continental Drawings and Watercolors", Christie's, London, July 15th 1980, number 74 in the catalogue.
Notes: A rare preparation for the painting which has disappeared during the 19th century. see: Koenraad Jonckheere, "The Auction of King William's Paintings 1713, Elite International Art Trade at the End of the Dutch Golden Age", Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008, fig. 100.
Another version of the same subject with different background, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
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