Sheet of Notes

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Drawing details

Title: Sheet of Notes
Date: c.1872-73
Media: Silverpoint on paper
Dimensions: 12.3 x 7.2 cm
Location: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Picture credit: Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Reference number: 1946.35.46
Inscriptions: Inscribed "2 Van Dykes f. length / Ph. Leroy + wife / Murillo Charity / Europa Titian / Sir J. Mrs. Hoare [illegible] / Rubens Rainbow / 2 [illegible] Rembrandt 2 full length / J + Mrs Pelicorn [illegible] / [two illegible words] Watteau Guitar Playe

Interpretation

The inscriptions on this page are a list of further items from the Wallace Collection, including: Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), 'Philippe Le Roy', 1630 and 'Marie de Raet, wife of Philippe Le Roy', 1631 BartolomT Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), 'The Charity of Saint Thomas of Villanueva', c.1670 After Titian (c.1473/82-1576), 'The Rape of Europa', date unknown Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) 'Mrs. Susanna Hoare and Child', 1763-64 Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), 'The Rainbow Landscape', Circa 1636/7 Rembrandt (1606-1669) Studio of Rembrandt (1606-1669), 'Jean Pellicorne and his son Casper', Circa 1632-34 and 'Susanna van Collen, wife of Jean Pellicorne, and her daughter Anna', Circa 1632-34 Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), 'The Music Party (Les charmes de la vie)', c.1718 Diego Velßzquez (1599-1660), 'The Lady with a Fan', c.1630-50 Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), 'A Dance to the Music of Time (Il Ballo della Vita Humana)', date unknown

Description

Page from a sketchbook. 

Provenance

Purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from Geoffrey Steele (antiquarian bookseller, c.1907-2000) from his bookshop at RFD 1, Mahopac, New York, in 1946 for $6.00.