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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Rubens. The drawing is a study of a tree, with a dense tangle of roots, branches, leaves and grasses around its base. Out of this rises the trunk of the tree, which has some leaves climbing up it, and a few slender bare branches extending from the trunk at the top of the sheet. An upright post, perhaps a fence post, is visible on the right-hand side.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"12.
RUBENS
(b. 1577; d. 1640)
Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G., Chatsworth. From the Flinck Collection. Pen and bistre and bistre wash over red chalk with touches of water-colour, 34.5 x 29.8 cm. (13 9/16 x 11 11/16 in.).
Inscribed below in Rubens's hand: afgevallen bladeren ende op sommighe plaetsen schoon gruen grase door kyken (fallen leaves and in some places green grasses show through).
A very beautiful study of detail from nature in the same manner (and probably done at the same place and time) as a drawing in the Louvre (Rooses, 1591; reproduced by Braun).
A. M. H."
Technique: reproduction
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Rubens, Tree Study (1925.614). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.104355 | Go to resource |
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