Head Study of a Woman

Related Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)


Private Collection

© JVDPPP Head Study of a Woman

Object details

Title

Head Study of a Woman

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

44.2 x 34.0 cm

Artist

Related artist

Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)

Most recent published attribution

Workshop of Rubens [Van Hout 2020]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Private Collection

Provenance

possibly Mademoiselle Anne-Marie-Joseph de Maeyer (d. 1813), Mechelen;
her posthumous sale, at her residence, Mechelen, Bernard Louis Laureys, 6 July 1813 (1), as Rubens or in his manner, sold to ‘De Meester Backe’;
Mme Brousse, her sale, Galerie Fievez, Brussels, 25-26 June 1924 (77), as Rubens;
with the Art Collectors Association, London, 1931;
Jules Féral (1874-1944);
Heinrich Neuerburg (1883-1956), Cologne and Marienburg;
by descent;
sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 12 May 2012 (1236), as studio of Rubens;
with Philip Mould Ltd., London;
private collection.

Literature

Literature

Van Hout 2020, I, pp. 259-60, no. 110, II, fig. 378, as workshop of Rubens.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Wax seals

None

Inscriptions

Inscription ‘6z6’ in red paint

4 Paper labels

1. Philip Mould Ltd stock label

2. Unidentified stock number 3803

3. Auktionshaus Lempertz

4. Heinrich Neuerburg collection label

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 152
Dated: AD 1443 - 1594
Felled: After AD 1604 (terminus post quem)
Origin: north-eastern France/south-eastern Belgium

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 160
Dated: AD 1440 - 1599
Felled: After AD 1609 (terminus post quem)
Origin: north-eastern France/south-eastern Belgium

Date of investigation

06 December 2017

Dendro report no.

LO021/2017

Author

James Innes-Mulraine

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