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Museum number: 1860,0616.91
Description: Portrait of Rubens, aged 60, three-quarter length to left, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a voluminous dark velvet coat with ruff; after his self-portrait Black chalk, on grey paper
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School/style
Production date: 1592-1640
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Technique
Dimensions: Height: 449 millimetres; Width: 272 millimetres
Curator's comments: After the preparatory drawing in the Louvre, Paris, inv.no.20195 (Rooses 1530). The painting by Rubens is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, inv.no.527 (Rooses 1049). This drawing was issued as a coloured facsimile by the British Museum in 'Reproductions of Drawings by Old Masters in the British Museum', Part III, Published by the Trustees, in 1893 where it was number IV and described there as 'Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of the Artist.' Lit.: M. Bénard, 'Cabinet de M. Paignon Dijonval', Paris, 1810, no. 1321, p. 65 (as Rubens)
Bibliographic references: Hind 1915-31 / Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (123); Corpus Rubenianum XIX / Portraits (137a) (copy 1)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Samuel Woodburn; Purchased through: Christie's (7.vi.1860/802 as Rubens 'THE PORTRAIT OF RUBENS IN A HAT AND CLOAK. The study for the celebrated picture at Vienna - black chalk. From the Collection of the Marquis Vinde' bt Tiffin £52-10-0); Purchased through: Walter Benjamin Tiffin
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Gilbert Paignon-Dijonval; Previous owner/ex-collection: Vicomte Charles-Gilbert Morel de Vindé; Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445)
Acquisition date: 1860
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1860,0616.91

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