Study of a seated woman (The Virgin)
Drawing
ca.1606 (made)
ca.1606 (made)
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Half-length, she is seen with her body nearly in profile, with her head turned to the front, and her right arm crossed over her left.
Object details
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| Title | Study of a seated woman (The Virgin) (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Black and red chalk, with touches of white bodycolour on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing; Study of a seated woman (The Virgin); by Peter Paul Rubens; Black and red chalk, with touches of white bodycolour on paper, Flemish School, c. 1606 |
| Physical description | Half-length, she is seen with her body nearly in profile, with her head turned to the front, and her right arm crossed over her left. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed on verso, in an old hand, in brown ink, NO 14; and at bottom left, in graphite, |—20 (inverted); and at bottom right, in graphite, 3–0—44 |
| Gallery label | Rubens began to make chalk studies from live models while training in Italy. It was a long established step in the preparation for paintings there. This study is a preparatory drawing for the figure of the Virgin Mary in Rubens’ painting the Circumcision of Christ. The painting is now in the Church of Gesù e dei Santi Ambrogio e Andrea in Genoa. |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss Emily Dalton, 1900 |
| Object history | Bequeathed by Miss Emily Dalton, 1900 Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London (L. 2445); Lawrence–Woodburn sale, London, Christie’s, 4–8 June 1860, lot 794; Miss Emily Dalton (1816/17–1900), Leicester, by whom bequeathed to the museum (NAL dry stamp on recto and Dalton Bequest purple ink stamp on verso; neither in Lugt), 1900. |
| Production | Possibly a study for the figure of The Virgin in Ruben's 'The Circumcision of Christ', now in the Church of Jesus and Saints Ambrose and Andrew, Genoa |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. II, Cat. 517, illus. p. 438 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | D.967-1900 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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