drawing
- Museum number
- 1994,0514.41
- Description
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Portrait of an unknown woman, once called Helena Fourment, relating to a painting at Windsor; bust length, turned three-quarter to left, dress open at chest, lace collar above shoulders, beads and flowers in hair
Red and black chalk, reinforced with brush and brown wash
- Production date
- 1593-1642
- Dimensions
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Height: 257 millimetres
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Width: 193 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Not in Rowlands's catalogue of the Rubens drawings exhibition at the British Museum in 1977, but see A E Popham, 'Drawings by Rubens and Van Dyck from the National Gallery', British Museum Quarterly, X, 1935, p.13,14, where the attribution to Rubens and the possible identity of the sitter are discussed.
He believed the present drawing to be too weak to be anything but a copy either from the painting at Windsor or from a study for it, although Rooses (1499) regarded it as an original drawing.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Acquisition notes
- This drawing along with fourteen others by Rubens and his assistants, originally purchased by the National Gallery from Sir Robert Peel in 1871, was deposited on loan to the Department of Prints and Drawings by the National Gallery in 1935 and formally transferred in 1994.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1994,0514.41
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: NG.853.i