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Sir Peter Paul Rubens

The Crucifixion

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July 1, 09:30 AM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

(Soest 1577 - 1640 Antwerp)

The Crucifixion


Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, over black chalk

385 by 202 mm

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1725-1805), Paris;

M. Sichel, Paris, 1882;

S.P. Avery;

sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 3 May 1976, lot 95 (90,000 guilders hammer);

Alain Delon (1935-2024), France;

his Sale, Paris, Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr, 22 June 2023, lot 19 (as “follower of Sir Peter Paul Rubens”);

Private collection, England

Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, "20 ans de Passion" Alain Delon, Dessins, Printemps 1990, no 20, ill.

J.R. Judson, Rubens. The Passion of Christ (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard VI), Turnhout 2000, p. 126, fig. 99 (described from an old photograph as ‘may be a copy of the Bob Jones painting, or perhaps both were made after a lost composition by Rubens’)