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Description: | (b.l.) "P.P. Rubens Pinxit Clement de Jongne Excudit"
(b.c.) "Ora Myron, humeros Lysippus, lumina finxit Praxiteles: Vocem fingere nemo potest. P. Soutman Excud Cum Privil"
(b.r.) "P. Van Sompel Sculpxit"
(b.r. corner) blk ink "1317".
2.5 cm in from right edge, 5.5 cm from bottom edge blk ink "[possibly "SM" rotated 90 degrees to right]".
Verso pencil "148".
Verso smoke staining. CRE SOMPEL, Pieter van; (Flemish; c.1600-1643) AFTER RUBENS, Peter Paul, Sir; (Flemish; 1577-1640) PUB JONGHE, Clement de State II of IV.
Painting in Liechtenstein coll., oilsketch in London (coll. Seilern). Drawing by Van Sompel with retouches by Rubens? (according to I.Q. van Regteren Altena) in Haarlem. See: J.S. Held, The oil sketches of P.P. Rubens, 2 vols. Princeton 1982 cat no 231 pl.240.
(b.c.) inscription "The faces Myron, the shoulders Lysippus [Lysippos], the eyes were made by Praxiteles: no-one could give them a voice." appears to relate to the main figure group in the image, and associates those body parts with three Greek sculptors, widely believed at the time of Rubens to be the greatest of their day. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | MYTHOLOGY : ERICHTHONIUS : GREEK SCULPTURE : SCULPTURE : MOTHER EARTH : DIANA OF EPHESUS : ATHENS : MINERVA : CECROPS : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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