Studio of Peter Paul Rubens. Study for Horse, drawing

Studio of Peter Paul RUBENS (Siegen 1577-Antwerp 1640)

Feuille d’étude pour un cheval, différentes reprises de la tête (Study for Horse, Different Head Positions)

Red charcoal
Two antique labels on verso

Height: 19,5 cm (7-2/3 in.) - Width: 29 cm (11-1/3 in.)
Frame: 37,5 x 48,5 cm (14-3/4 x 19 in.)

Stains and creases

Provenance:
- Former Wauters collection, seal lower left (L.911)
- Auction June 15-16, 1926, Amsterdam, no. 176 as Rubens

When Julius Held donated his drawings from this animals series by Rubens (two drawings at Louvre Lugt n°1269-1270), they were actually considered as from his studio (consult exhibition catalogue "Peter Paulus Rubens", the Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York , 2004- 2005, note 1 p. 271)

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