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Object Type
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
Production date: 1638
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 329 millimetres; Width: 234 millimetres
$Inscriptions
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
Associated names: Representation of: Anakreon; Representation of: Demosthenes (formerly identified); Associated with: Nicholaes Rockox
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1841
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1841,0809.49

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