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Object Type
print
Museum number
1841,0809.49
Title
Object:
Demosthenes Demosthenis F. Atheniensis Orator
Series:
Twelve Famous Greek and Roman Men
Description
Herm statue of the Greek poet Anakreon (wrongly titled Demosthenes) with balding heard and curly beard, bust in frontal view; from a set of twelve plates showing antique busts after drawings by Rubens. 1638 Engraving
Producer name
After:
Peter Paul Rubens
Print made by:
Jan Witdoeck
Published by:
Peter Paul Rubens
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1638
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
329 millimetres
Width:
234 millimetres
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Curator's comments
This is one from a series of twelve, for comment see R,4.120. After an unknown drawing by Rubens; a proof impression of the plate retouched by Rubens is in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. After a marble sculpture which belonged to Nicolaas Rockox until his death in 1640 after which Queen Christina of Sweden acquired it. It is now in the National Museum of Stockholm.
Bibliographic references
Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens
(223.25.6)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(25.II)
(under Witdoeck)
Corpus Rubenianum XXIII / Copies after the Antique
(112)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
sculpture
Associated names
Representation of:
Anakreon
Representation of:
Demosthenes
(formerly identified)
Associated with:
Nicholaes Rockox
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
W & G Smith
Acquisition date
1841
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1841,0809.49