SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)
SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)
SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)
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SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)
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SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)

Landscape with willows

Details
SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)
Landscape with willows
oil on panel
19.7 x 35.6 cm. (7 ¾ x 14 in.)
Provenance
(Possibly) John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll; his sale (†), Phillips, London, 25 May 1798, lot 15, where acquired for 2 gns. by the following,
Hendrik Frans de Cort (1742-1810), London.
Charles Butler (1822-1910), Warren Wood, Hatfield.
Edward and Sally Speelman, London, by whom reputedly acquired circa 1960 from the grandson of the above, Patrick John Butler (b. 1912).
Literature
J. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens, I, Princeton, 1980, pp. 617-18, no. 451; II, pl. 438.
W. Adler, The Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: Landscapes I, XVIII, London and New York, 1982, pp. 157-58, no. 50, pl. 133, erroneously stating 'a strip of 12 cm. is missing at the bottom.'
D. Bodart, Rubens, Milan, 1985, p. 198, no. 870.
M. Jaffé, Rubens: Catalogo Completo, Milan, 1989, p. 329, no. 1061.
P. van der Ploeg, ‘Te mooi voor de handel: Uit de privé-collectie van Edward en Sally Speelman’, Mauritshuis in Focus, XIV, no. 1, May 2001, pp. 13-15, fig. 8.
C. Kleinert, Peter Paul Rubens and his Landscapes: Ideas on Nature and Art, Turnhout, 2014, pp. 29 and 168, no. 16.
Exhibited
Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, P. P. Rubens: Esquisses, Dessins, Gravures, 14 December 1952-20 January 1953, no. 21.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Olieverfschetsen van Rubens, 19 December 1953-14 February 1954, no. 57.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1996-2005, on loan.
London, National Gallery, Making & Meaning: Rubens's Landscapes, 16 October 1996-19 January 1997, no. 34.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, A Collector's Cabinet, 17 May-9 August 1998, no. 48.
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts and The Hague, Mauritshuis, The Edward and Sally Speelman Collection: The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting, 23 March 2000-22 July 2001, no. 12.
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 2005-2019, on loan.
Oudenaarde, Museum van Oudenaarde en de Vlaamse Ardennen, Between Rubens and Rembrandt, Adriaen Brouwer: Master of Emotions, 15 September-16 December 2018, no. 49.

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