Peter Paul Rubens: Robin, the Dwarf of the Earl of Arundel
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Artist |
Peter Paul Rubens
(1577–1640) |
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Alternative names |
Rubens, Pierre Paul Rubens, Pieter Paul Rubens, Sir Peter Paul Rubens |
Description |
Flemish painter, sculptor, drawer and printmaker |
Date of birth/death |
28 June 1577 ![Edit this at Wikidata](https://backend.710302.xyz/https/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
30 May 1640 ![Edit this at Wikidata](https://backend.710302.xyz/https/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Location of birth/death |
Siegen |
Antwerp |
Work period |
16th century date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 ![Edit this at Wikidata](https://backend.710302.xyz/https/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Work location |
Antwerp (1589-1600), Mantua (9 May 1600-1608), Spain (1603), Antwerp (1608-1640), Netherlands (1612), Paris (23 May 1623-29 June 1623, 4 February 1625-9 June 1625), Calais (November 1626), Paris (December 1626), City of Brussels (1627), Netherlands (10 July 1627-6 August 1627), Spain (26 August 1628-29 April 1629), London (18 May 1629-23 March 1630), City of Brussels (1631), Netherlands (November 1631), Affligem (September 1634) |
Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q5599 |
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Title |
Robin, the Dwarf of the Earl of Arundel ![Edit this at Wikidata](https://backend.710302.xyz/https/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) label QS:Len,"Robin, the Dwarf of the Earl of Arundel"
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Object type |
drawing ![Edit this at Wikidata](https://backend.710302.xyz/https/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Description |
English: A detailed preliminary study, with colour indications, for the dwarf Robin in the right foreground of the group portrait of The Countess of Arundel and her Train at Munich. This is the surviving example of the drawn costume studies mentioned in the letter of 17 July 1620 to the Earl of Arundel.
Polski: Studium Rubensa |
Date |
1620 date QS:P571,+1620-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium |
Pen and brown ink over red, black and white chalk on light grey paper. Fully mounted. |
Dimensions |
height: 40.3 cm (15.8 in); width: 25.8 cm (10.1 in) dimensions QS:P2048,40.3U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,25.8U174728 |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q842858 |
Accession number |
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Object history |
- P.Crozat (Paris, 1665 1740), sale, 10 April 1741 et seq., lot 841;
- Count C.G.Tessin (Stockholm, 1695 1770);
- Royal Library, Stockholm (Inv. 1790, No.1722);
- Royal Museum, Stockholm
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Exhibition history |
- C h o ix d e dessins d u q u in zièm e au dix-huitième siècle, à l’occasion du XVIIIième Congrès International d’Histoire de l’Art, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1933, No.36;
- Brussels, 19 3 8 -39 , N0.26 (repr.);
- R otterdam, 1939, N0.42 (repr.);
- R otterd am , 1948-49, N0.120;
- Brussels, 1949, N0.90;
- P a ris, 1949, N0.94;
- H elsinki, 19 3 2 -3 3 , N0.40 (repr.);
- Stockholm , 1933, No. 100 (repr.);
- A n tw erp , 1936, N0.89 (repr.);
- O ld M a ster D ra w in gs, NationalmuseumStockholm, 1967^0.20;
- D ra w in g s fr o m Stockholm , The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1969, N0.54;
- London, 1932, No.7 (repr.);
- A n tw e rp , 1933, No.153 (repr.);
- Stockholm , 19 3 3 -3 8 , N0.33 (repr.)
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Inscriptions |
several inscriptions in Rubens’s hand, referring to colours and materials of the costume: H et W am bu y s verm ach w esen root sa ttijn ende de broeck root flo u w eel (above on the left), T a n n a y tflou w eel (waistcoat), T an n ay t flo u w eel (breeches), root (knee), G eel (stockings), root (bootlaces), S w a rt (boot), Geel V oyeringe (border of mantle);
in the right corner below, the mark of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
(L.1980) and, inscribed with the pen, P.P. R u b en s (? by Crozat) and 1722 (mark of the Royal Library inventory, Stockholm, 1790) |
References |
- http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=68652&viewType=detailView
- R ooses, V, p.260, No.1498;
- G lü ck -H a b e r d itçl, p.46, No.133 (repr.);
- L. Van Puyvelde, ‘Die Handzeichnungen des P.P.Rubens in der Ausstellung in Brüssel’, Pantheon, XXIII, 1939, pp.75, 78 (repr.);
- Evers, R u ben s, p.89 (repr.);
- Evers, Neue Forschungen, pp.339-340;
- Burchard -d ’ H u lst, T eken in g en ,p p .8 0 -8 1, No. 89(repr.);
- H eld , D ra w in g s, pp.10, 32, 44, 55, 136, No.101, pi.113;
- B u rch a rd -d ’ H u lst, Drawings,I, pp.198-199, N0.127 (repr.);
- B.Magnusson, ‘Rubens som tecknare’, in R u b en s iS v erig e, Stockholm, 1977, pp. 105-106 (repr.)
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Source/Photographer |
http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/rubens-van-dyck-and-flemish-art |