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Studies of a River God

Abraham Janssens (Flemish, 1571/1575–1632)

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)

1620–25

Medium/TechniqueBlack chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper

DimensionsSheet: 41.6 x 24.2 cm (16 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund

Accession number20.813

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InscriptionsIn pen and brown ink, vertically along left edge: "Hogde vier ellen ende half"; lower center, "Brede gelijck dese draet" (height four and a half ells; width the same as this shread); on verso, "dit is het pastuchen" (?). [Transcription and translation by Julius Held in Rubens Selected Drawings (1959), p. 108. Infrared images of all inscriptions appear in conservation record of October 2004.]

ProvenanceH. M. Howard, Earl of Wicklow (b. 1883 - d. 1919, Lugt Suppl. 1280b); to Henry Adams; to Mrs. Henry P. Quincy; sold by Mrs. Henry P. Quincy to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 1920)