Literature
J. Müller Hofstede, 'Opmerkingen bij enige tekeningen von Rubens in het Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen', Bulletin Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, XIII, 1962, pp. 96-7, pls. 10-11 (as Rubens).
K. Renger, 'Rubens, Drawings and Sketches', Kunstchronik, XXI, no. 4, 1978, p. 144, as not by Rubens.
J. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: A Critical Catalogue, Princeton, 1980, I, p. 637, under no. A25 ('Nor do I believe that the drawing on a letter in the collection of J.Q. van Regteren Altena... is Rubens' work; the letter (admittedly a fragment) is not written in Rubens' hand').
Corpus Rubenianum VI, J. R. Judson, The Passion of Christ, Antwerp, 2000, p. 59, under no. 10 ('Held has rejected both the sketch [i.e. the oil sketch of the same subject in The Hague, Judson no. 10] and the drawing in the van Regteren Altena collection, an opinion with which I would agree').
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 105, pl. 96 (as Rubens; catalogue by J. Giltaij).
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Rubens in Italien: Gemälde,
Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen (part of Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640),
1977, no. 31 (as Rubens).
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