Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
Head of a bearded man in profile to the right
Description:
pen and brown ink, heightened with whiteirregular shape, made up below and right, 90 x 75 mm.on an eighteenth century mount
Provenance:
John Clerk, Lord Eldin (1757 – 1832) His sale, Winstanley & Sons, Edinburgh, 14th – 29th March, 1833, part of lot 95, 9/-Purchased by Sir Archibald Campbell, 2nd Bt. (1769 – 1848)By descent to Sir Ilay Campbell, Bt.Christie’s, London, Highly Important Old Master Drawings, 26th March 1974, lot 80, pl. 37Purchased at the above by the previous ownerPrivate collection, London
Literature
Glasgow City Art Gallery, The Campbell Collection, 1953, no. 16ACQUIRED BY THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, GLASGOW