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Style of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
Sirens lamenting the death of Leander c.1620-80
Black and red chalk strengthened with pen and brown ink | 20.5 x 30.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906415
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A drawing of six weeping sirens supporting the body of Leander, while another swims in from the right. Inscribed, lower right, in an eighteenth-century (?) hand: Rubens.
Provenance
[? Gerard Hoet jun., sale, The Hague, 25 August 1760 (466);] first recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1810 (Inv. A, P. 105; 'Of Rubens...Sea Nymphs weeping over the body of Leander')
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Medium and techniques
Black and red chalk strengthened with pen and brown ink
Measurements
20.5 x 30.3 cm (sheet of paper)
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