Cupids Harvesting
Peter Paul Rubens17th century?
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
"According to a handwritten note in an 1802 sale catalogue that was arranged by Dulwich's art dealer founder, Noel Desenfans, this little painting came from the collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds. If so it was probably acquired in 1796 at a sale of Sir Joshua's collection held over several days in April, at Greenwood's auction house.
Our founders were certainly present, and bought one or two other items. By then, they knew that their grand commission to buy a collection for the King of Poland had come to nothing, and their purchases were therefore, perhaps, not on the grand scale of the preceding five years.
This little painting, on an oak panel, is charming but quite a long way from the brilliance of Rubens, as represented elsewhere in the collection."
- Title: Cupids Harvesting
- Creator Lifespan: 1577 - 1640
- Date: 17th century?
- Physical Dimensions: w834 x h505 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- Work Notes: Catalogue No. Br-108Last Modified 11 April 2000Lot Sale Date 1802/05/08Sale Begin Date 1802/05/08Sale End Date 1802/05/08Lugt Number 6427Auct.House Auth Christie'sSale Location LondonLot Number 0024Verbatim Artist RubensArtist Authority RUBENS, PETER PAULNationality FlemishTitle Boys Reaping, a SketchHandwritten Note from Sr. J Reynolds Colln -- damaged --Hand.Note Source OGAVerbatim Seller Earl of DarnleySeller Authority Darnley, John Bligh, 4th Earl ofTransaction SoldPrice £21.0Verbatim Buyer Sr F BourgoisBuyer Authority Bourgeois, Peter Francis, SirPrevious Owner [Sr. J Reynolds]Prev.Own.Source Handwritten Annotation: OGAPrev.Owner Auth. Reynolds, Joshua, SirPrevious Sales 1791/04/04 LOAN (0014)Present Location London, England, UK. Dulwich Picture Gallery (450) as copy after Rubens
- Work Nationality: Flemish
- Support: Oak panel
- Provenance: Sir Joshua Reynolds (handwritten note in 1802 sale cat.); John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley, by 1802; his sale, London, Christie's, 8 May 1802, lot 24 (ÔBoys Reaping, a Sketch'). Bt Bourgeois for £21; London, Noel Desenfans and/or Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1802-1807; London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1807-1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811.
- Manner of: Rubens, Sir Peter Paul
- Acquisition Method: Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis (Bequest, 1811)
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