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Lot 105

Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
(Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)
Saint Francis

Old Master Paintings

5 July 2017, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

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

Saint Francis
oil on panel
43 x 42.2cm (16 15/16 x 16 5/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
The Collection of J. Steele Wright, Hindhead
The Collection of the Hon. G. Cunliffe
Sale, Christie's, London, 12 March 1943, lot 110 (as A. Van Dyck, bt. Leger)
With Terry Engell Galleries, London
With Leger Galleries, London, 1950s, where purchased by
Martin Puigdomenech, Barcelona, 1966

Exhibited
Madrid, Palacio de Velazquez, Pedro Pablo Rubens (1577-1640), Exposicion Homenaje, December 1977- March 1978, cat. no. 87

Literature
H. Granville-Fell, 'Rubens sketches', in The Connoisseur , October 1951, p.119
H. Vlieghe & L. Burchard, 'Saints' in Corpus Rubenianum, vol. I, Antwerp, 1972, p. 138, cat. no. 89, fig. 154, ill.
M. Diaz Pedron, Pedro Pablo Rubens (1577-1640), Exposicion Homenaje, exh. cat., Madrid, 1977, p. 103, cat. no. 87, p. 230, ill.

The present work is by a good hand from Rubens's studio. An attribution to Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596 -1675) has been suggested although the direct composition is not known in another known painting or drawing by Rubens or a member of his studio to assist in identifying exactly who painted this work. Because the technique appears to be that of a finished painting rather than a preparatory sketch, it may be that the present painting is a fragment of a larger work, possibly depicting Saint Francis receiving Baby Jesus from the Virgin Mary, as shown in Rubens's panel, 230 x 173 cm. of circa 1617 in the Church of Saint Anthony, Antwerp.

The present work is accompanied by a letter from Dr. Ludwig Burchard, dated 26 November 1957, confirming that, in his opinion, this is by Rubens and dates to 1615-20s.

A drawing, which had been purported to be by Rubens, of the same composition is in the Palazzo Reale, Turin (inv. no. 9.830).

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