1932.335: Hermes

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.335

People

Jacques Jordaens, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1593 - 1678 Antwerp, Belgium)

Title

Hermes

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298564

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red and black chalk, brown wash, red watercolor, and white and brown opaque watercolor, on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in graphite; added strip at lower right, perhaps not original

Dimensions

47.1 x 27.8 cm (18 9/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
mount: 57.4 x 39.4 cm (22 5/8 x 15 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: upper left, red chalk: C
• collector's mark: primary mount, verso, lower left, black ink, stamp: L. 549 (Sir Charles Greville)
• inscription: secondary mount, lower right, under drawing, graphite: 6741 / ... [illegible, erased]
• watermark: Beta will not be made. Mount is too thick.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sir Charles Greville (L. 549, lower left), by descent; to his nephew, George Guy Greville, Fourth Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle, sold; [Christie’s, London, 20 May 1896, lot 356 (as Rubens).] Charles A. Loeser, Florence; Bequest of Charles A. Loeser, 1932.335.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.335

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 486, p. 252, as Peter Paul Rubens
• Jan-Albert Goris and Julius S. Held, Rubens in America, Pantheon Books (New York and Antwerp, 1947), cat. no. A. 96, pp. 55-56 (as pupil of Rubens)
• Karl Feuchtmayr, Zu Kleinen Holzbildwerken von Jörg Petle im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst, Prestel Verlag (Munich, 1958-1959), vol. 9-10, pp. 256-262, p. 259
• Theodor Müller and Alfred Schädler, Georg Petel 1601-1634, exh. cat., Hirmer Verlag (1964), p. 21, under no. 8
• International Council of Museums, Augsburger Barock, exh. cat., ed. Christina Thom (Augsburg, 1968), p. 233, under no. 304, repr. fig. 134 (n.p.)
• Svetlana Alpers, The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard (1971), vol. IX, p. 234, under cat. no. 39, repr. fig. 145 (as after Rubens)
• Karl Feuchtmayr and Alfred Schädler, Georg Petel 1601/2-1634, Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft (Berlin, 1973), p. 180, under cat. no. 140
• Julius S. Held, [Review of d'Hulst catalogue], The Art Bulletin (1978 (December)), vol. LX, no. 4, p. 726, repr. p. 727, fig. 8 (as Jordaens?)
• Roger A. d'Hulst, "Jordaens Drawings: Supplement I", Master Drawings (1980 (Winter)), vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 360-70, pp. 360, 362-63, cat. no. A52a, repr. pl. 18
• Dessins anciens et du XIXe siècle, auct. cat., Nouveau Drouot (Paris, 26 June 1987), under lot no. 123
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella A") (as Rubens)
• Works on Paper, auct. cat., Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd. and Marty de Cambiare (London/Paris, 2019), p. 32, fig. 2
• Austeja Mackelaite, "Recent Acquisition: Mercury Standing, by Jacob Jordaens", The Morgan Blog, The Morgan Library & Museum (May 21, 2020), https://www.themorgan.org/blog/recent-acquisition-mercury-standing-jacob-jordaens#.Xu-VoICHz7Y.email, accessed March 17, 2022

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level