Portrait bust of Seneca

成交价美元 4,375

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Circle of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)

Portrait bust of Seneca

成交价美元 4,375

細明拍品专文

Circle of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)
Portrait bust of Seneca
black chalk, pen and brown ink, inscribed oval
5 1/8 x 3 7/8 in. (13.2 x 10 cm.)

J. Richardson, Sen. (L. 2184), his mount with associated shelfmark 'L. 69. E' (verso).
Hans Calmann, London; by whom given on 24 January 1949 to
Ludwig Burchard, and by descent to the present owner.

拍品专文

A copy after a drawing in the British Museum (inv. 1858,0724.2), which has the same Richardson provenance. The same bust-length figure of Seneca appears in a closely-related painting by Rubens in the Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp (M. van der Meulen, , II, 1994, fig. 227), and Lucas Vorsterman later engraved the composition in reverse (British Museum, inv. R,4.78). This particular Seneca 'type' found in Rubens's works derived ultimately from the celebrated antique statue, now in the Vatican, which in the seventeenth century was thought to represent the philosopher dying in his bath, but which has since been identified as depicting an African fisherman.