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Object Type
print
Museum number
R,4.49
Description
St Cecilia with the features of Helena Fourment, seated full-length directed to right, playing the virginals, a dog sleeping at her feet in lower left, in lower right a putto tries to climb on the instrument via the support in the shape of a sphinx, two others singing beyond, a fourth putto coming from behind a column and holding flowers; fourth state retouched by Bolswert; after Peter Paul Rubens Engraving
Producer name
After:
Peter Paul Rubens
Print made by:
Jan Witdoeck
Print made by:
Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert
(retouched fourth state)
Published by:
Gillis Hendricx
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1635-1642
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
385 millimetres
Width:
300 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
After the painting by Rubens in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin (Rooses 403).
Bibliographic references
Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens
(116.50)
Corpus Rubenianum VIII / Saints
(82)
(copy 4)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(20.IV)
(under Witdoeck)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
christian saint/martyr
musician
Associated names
Representation of:
St Cecilia
Portrait of:
Helena Fourment
(as St Cecilia)
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Sir Hans Sloane
(with Philipe's oval stamp and the initials HS)
Acquisition date
1753
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
R,4.49