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Feb 17, 2010

Three Studies of a Woman Wearing an Elaborate Headdress

c. 1500

Anonymous

retouched by Peter Paul Rubens

(Flemish, 1577–1640)

Netherlands(?), 16th century

Pen and brown ink; retouched with brush and brown wash, lead white (partially oxidized)

Support: Beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 12.9 x 12.8 cm (5 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1987.31

Location

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In the 1600s, the artist Peter Paul Rubens made additions in ink wash and white paint to this c. 1500 drawing by an unknown Netherlandish artist.

Description

This young woman’s long, conical hood is tucked under and pinned, with the front folded over to create wide, sloping flaps. Such headgear kept heat and cold away during outdoor labor, but around 1475, the style was adopted as a fashion statement by middle- and upper-class women, with the fabric starched for exaggerated effect. The drawing was likely made for a model book in an artist’s workshop of costume details for reference. More than 100 years later, the Antwerp artist Rubens acquired the drawing for his own model book and even drew over it.

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO, center, in graphite: Van Eyck [upside down] / [illegible] [upside down] ; lower right, in brown ink: R.P.R [upside down] (Lugt 2234)

Provenance

early 1700s

Sir Anthony Westcombe, London, died 1752

?-1887

Robert Prioleau Roupell, London, 1798-1886 (Lugt 2234)

1887

his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, July 12, 1887, lot 891 (as Van Eyck)

1887-1909?

George Salting, London, 1835-1909

1910?-1936

A.W.M. Mensing, Amsterdam, 1866-1936

1937

his sale, Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, April 27-29, 1937, lot 614 (as Rubens)

?-1985

Mrs. Leo van Bergh, Wassenaar

1985

Sold, Christie's Amsterdam, Nov. 18, 1985, lot 4 (as Flemish School, early 16th century, retouched by Rubens)

?-?

Alexander Converse?

1987

with Baskett and Day, London, 1987

1987-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Thöne, Friedrich. "Zu Peter Paul Rubens Als Zeichner." Berliner Museen 61, no. 4 (1940): 63-67. p. 63 n3

Belkin, Kristin Lohse, and Peter Paul Rubens. The Costume Book. Brussels: Arcade, 1980. p. 119, under no. 21

Logan, Anne-Marie. Review of Julius Held, Rubens: Selected Drawings, in Master Drawings 25, no. 1 (1987): 63-82. A to cat. no. 66, fig.4

Logan, Anne-Marie S. Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections. Wellesley, Mass: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, 1993. pp. 175-176, no. 36, pl. 36

Dunbar, Burton L., and Edward J. Olszewski. Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. pp. 148-150, no. 28, fig. 28

Belkin, Kristin Lohse. Rubens: Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists : German and Netherlandish Artists, Vol. 1. London: Harvey Miller, 2009. pp. 255-256, no. 134; illus. p. 254

Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 186-187, no.48

Exhibition history

Antwerp, Belgium. Rubenshuis, Musea Antwerpen (6/14/2002 - 8/18/2002). "Marvels of Delight: Early Netherlandish Drawings from jan van Eyck to Heironymus Bosch"

The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).

Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).

Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 4-February 20, 1994).

Marvels of Delight: Early Netherlandish Drawings from Jan van Eyck to Hieronymus Bosch. Rubens House, Antwerp (June 14-August 18, 2002).

Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (October 9, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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