LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown ink, indistinct watermark

Measurements:

11.18 in. (28.40 cm.) (height) by 8.86 in. (22.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, The Lawrence Gallery, First Exhibition. A Catalogue of One Hundred Original Drawings by Sir P.P. Rubens, Collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence, May 1835, no. 36, as 'Socrates'.

Literature:

M. Bénard, Cabinet de M. Paignon-Dijonval, Paris, 1810, p. 66, no. 1343. G.F. Waagen, Kunstwerke und Künstler in England und Paris, Berlin, 1837, I, p. 447, as 'Socrates'. C. Schuckman, Hollstein's Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, Amsterdam, 1993, p. 101, under no. 106. M. van der Meulen, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. XXIII: Copies after the Antique, London, 1995, pp. 124-5, no. 111a.

Provenance:

Gilbert Paignon-Dijonval, Paris; and by descent to his grandson. Vicomte Charles-Gilbert Morel de Vindé, Paris; from whom acquired in 1816 by S. Woodburn as agent for. Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445). S. Woodburn. An unidentified collector, his monogram 'VH' and date '31 March 1838'. C.S. Bale; Christie's, London, 9 June 1881, lot 2448. Ludwig Burchard, in 1930, and by descent to the present owner.