The prophets David and Daniel, after Raphael

Details

Attributed to Erasmus Quellinus (Antwerp 1607-1678)
The prophets David and Daniel, after Raphael
with inscription 'Correa f^c' and with number '27'
red chalk, heightened with white, brown ink framing lines
14 x 11 7/8 in. (35.4 x 30.1 cm.)

Provenance

Jeffrey Whitehead, London.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Hugo Helbing, Munich, 19 June 1897, lot 252.
with Marignane (possibly Maurice Marignane born 1879), Paris; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena in January 1927 for 25 guilders (Inventory book: '256. t. Rubens copie n. Raffael').

Literature

A.M. Logan, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): The Drawings, exhib. cat., New York, 2005, under no. 114 (as after Raphael).
J. Wood. Corpus Rubenianum: Copies and adaptations from Renaissance and later artists. Italian artists. I. Raphael and his school, London and Turnhout, 2010, I, pp. 229-30 (with an exhaustive list of the previous literature), II, fig. 74.

Exhibited

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Rubens in Italien: Gemälde, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen (part of Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640), 1977, no. 69 (as Rubens).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

Long considered to be by Rubens, this drawing copies a sheet after Raphael retouched by Rubens, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (see New York, 2005, op. cit., no. 114). The drawings show figures from the fresco by Raphael in the Chigi Chapel, Santa Maria della Pace, Rome. The attribution to Quellinus was suggested by Jeremy Wood (op. cit.).

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