id: 125247 accession number: 1947.207 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.207 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:05.222000 Portrait of Isabella Brant, c. 1620–25. Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640). Oil on wood; framed: 83 x 73.5 x 9 cm (32 11/16 x 28 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 53 x 46 cm (20 7/8 x 18 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1947.207 title: Portrait of Isabella Brant title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1620–25 creation date earliest: 1620 creation date latest: 1625 current location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Flanders technique: oil on wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 83 x 73.5 x 9 cm (32 11/16 x 28 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 53 x 46 cm (20 7/8 x 18 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts opening date: 1949-09-30T04:00:00 Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949). title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). title: Peter Paul Rubens opening date: 1977-06-28T04:00:00 Peter Paul Rubens. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp (organizer) (June 28-October 2, 1977). title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: Rubens opening date: 2004-03-06T00:00:00 Rubens. Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France (organizer) (March 6-June 14, 2004). title: Rubens in Private opening date: 2015-03-28T00:00:00 Rubens in Private. Rubenshuis, Antwerpen, Belgium (organizer) (March 28-June 28, 2015). title: The Early Celebrity of Peter Paul Rubens opening date: 2019-04-06T04:00:00 The Early Celebrity of Peter Paul Rubens. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (April 6-September 2, 2019); Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (October 5, 2019-January 5, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Fifty Paintings by Old Masters, Art Gallery of Toronto, April 21- May 21, 1950, no. 40.', 'opening_date': '1950-04-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Belgium, The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 1977: "P.P Rubens: Paintings, Oil Sketches, Drawings," cat. no. 58, repr.', 'opening_date': '1977-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Style, Truth and the Portrait, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 1- Nov. 10, 1963, no. 21 (repr.) June 29- September 30, 1977.', 'opening_date': '1963-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'P. P. Rubens Paintings, Oil Sketches, Drawings, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 1977, cat. no. 58, illus.', 'opening_date': '1977-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "A Tribute to Rubens: 400th anniversary of Peter Paul Rubens' Birth. The Cleveland Museum of Art, May- June 1977. (No catalogue: see label copy.)", 'opening_date': '1977-05-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Portraiture: The Image of the Individual, November 22, 1983- January 1984, The Cleveland Museum of Art (checklist)', 'opening_date': '1983-11-22T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille "Rubens": (3/6/2004 - 6/14/2004), exh. cat. no. 68, p. 128,130.', 'opening_date': '2004-03-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Rubenshuis, Antwerp, Belgium (3/28/2015 - 6/28/2015): "Rubens in Private"', 'opening_date': '2015-03-28T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1947- footnotes: citations: Rosenberg and Stiebel and Pinakos, Inc./Rudolf Heinemann, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1947 footnotes: *
Burchard and Raphael Rosenberg first began corresponding about the Rubens in March 1945, and it seems that Rosenberg and Stiebel made the decision to purchase the painting that month. Saemy Rosenberg mentions a letter of March 27, 1945 in which Raphael Rosenberg writes that Burchard’s “favorable opinion” of the Rubens “encouraged [them] to buy the painting.”  Several photographs in the Rubenianum’s file on the painting are marked with annotations stating that the painting was with Rosenberg and Stiebel beginning in November 1945, the month in which the purchase must have taken place.  Pinakos, Inc., owned by Rudolf Heinemann, often partnered with Rosenberg and Stiebel in the purchase of paintings.  Each firm owned a half-share in the Rubens painting, but because Pinakos is not mentioned in the above correspondence, Rosenberg and Stiebel may have sold the half-share following their initial purchase of the painting in November 1945.  In the fall of 1946, CMA director William Milliken and curator Henry Sayles Francis saw the painting at Rosenberg and Stiebel in New York, but at the time, the museum was not in a position to purchase it.  In April 1947, Francis writes to Saemy Rosenberg to say that the museum would like to consider the painting, if it was still available, for the collection.   
citations: Heirs of Marcus Kappel, sold to Rosenberg and Stiebel with Pinakos, Inc./Rudolf Heinemann date: 1930-1947 footnotes: *
It is unclear which Kappel heirs inherited the Rubens and ultimately sold it to Rosenberg and Stiebel, whose files apparently do not name the seller of the painting.  In a letter to Raphael Rosenberg dated May 28th, 1946, Ludwig Burchard simply states: “after Marcus Kappel’s death, the picture remained in the possession of the family.”   A notation on the back of photograph of the Rubens in the files of the Rubenianum reads, “Nov. 1945 in America den Kappel-Erben abgekauft von Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York.”  The heir(s) may have been Ellen Rathenau-Ettlinger and/or Ernst Rathenau, Kappel’s grandchildren, who inherited a number of works from their grandfather’s collection.  While there is no definitive confirmation that they were in possession of the painting throughout the war, there is also no indication that they were not, and no documentation suggests that the painting was seized by the Nazis.  
citations: (Kappel estate sale, Paul Cassirer und Hugo Helbing, Berlin, Nov. 25, 1930, no. 16, withdrawn) date: 1930 footnotes: *
An annotation in the Rubenianum's copy of this sale catalogue indicates that the painting was withdrawn because it failed to meet its reserve price: "Limite R[eichs] M[ark] 150.000".  Rubens scholar Ludwig Burchard wrote on the back of one of the Rubenianum's file photographs of the Rubens, “Photo Erhalten 27. Febr. 1930 durch Caspari, München.” The role Galerie Caspari played, if any, in the painting’s provenance is unclear.  The gallery may have merely supplied the photograph.  However, Caspari and Cassirer do appear adjacent to one another in the provenances of several other paintings, and so some transaction involving the painting may have taken place; perhaps the Kappel heirs first consigned the painting to Galerie Caspari, and after it failed to sell, it was consigned to Cassirer/Helbing for sale at auction.  
citations: Estate of Marcus Kappel date: 1919-1930 footnotes: citations: Marcus Kappel [1839-1919], Berlin date: 1914-1919 footnotes: citations: (Hugh Blaker [1873–1936], Old Isleworth, Middlesex, England, sold to Marcus Kappel date: 1914 footnotes: *
It is not certain whether Blaker acted as owner or dealer in this case, but given that he dealt in Old Masters and had the painting for no more than a year, the latter is more likely.
citations: (Glanusk sale, Sotheby's, London, April 29, 1914, no. 88, sold to Hugh Blaker) date: 1914 footnotes: citations: Lord Glanusk date: 1914 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: Vlieghe, Hans, Ludwig Burchard, and Antoine Seilern. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Peter Paul Rubens Based on the Material Assembled by the Late Dr. Ludwig Burchard in Twenty-Six Parts ; Part 19. London: H. Miller, 1987. page number: url: Jaffé, Michael. Rubens: catalogo completo. Milano: Rizzoli, 1989. page number: url: Gerald Stiebel, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, March 15, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Bert Watteuw, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Nov. 27, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Henry Sayles Francis, letter to Saemy Rosenberg, April 9, 1947, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Vlieghe, Hans, Ludwig Burchard, and Antoine Seilern. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Peter Paul Rubens Based on the Material Assembled by the Late Dr. Ludwig Burchard in Twenty-Six Parts ; Part 19. London: H. Miller, 1987. page number: url: Gerald Stiebel, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, March 15, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Bert Watteuw, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Nov. 27, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Bert Watteuw, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, April 13, 2015, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Bert Watteuw, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, April 23, 2015, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Walter Feilchenfeldt, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Dec. 12, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Bert Watteuw, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Nov. 27, 2014, in CMA curatorial file page number: url: Gerald Stiebel, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, June 26, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Gerald Stiebel, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Sept. 19, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Vlieghe, Hans, Ludwig Burchard, and Antoine Seilern. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Peter Paul Rubens Based on the Material Assembled by the Late Dr. Ludwig Burchard in Twenty-Six Parts; Part 19. London: H. Miller, 1987. page number: url: Jaffé, Michael. Rubens: catalogo completo. Milano: Rizzoli, 1989. page number: url: Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge (London). Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Pictures and Drawings in Water-Colours and Pastel Comprising Properties from Various Sources and Private Collections, and Including the Property of Lord Glanusk. April 29, 1914. page number: url: Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge (London). Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Pictures and Drawings in Water-Colours and Pastel Comprising Properties from Various Sources and Private Collections, and Including the Property of Lord Glanusk. April 29, 1914. page number: url: Glück, Gustav. Rubens, Van Dyck und ihr Kreis. Wien, Austria: Schroll, 1933. page number: Reproduced: p. 95, 385 url: Gijsen, Marnix, and Julius S. Held. Rubens in America. New York, NY: Pantheon, 1947. page number: Reproduced: p. 26, pl. XI url: The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXIV, (December, 1947): 247-249. page number: Mentioned: p. 247-249; Reproduced: p. 245 (cover) url: Art Gallery of Toronto. Fifty Paintings by Old Masters. The Art Gallery of Toronto. April 21-May 21, 1950. Toronto, Ontario,1950. page number: Reproduced: no. 40 url: Bode, Wilhelm von, and Eduard Plietzsch. Die Meister der holländischen und flämischen Malerschulen. Leipzig, Germany: E.A. Seemann, 1951. page number: Reproduced: p. 417; Mentioned: p. 425 url: Larsen, Erik. P.P. Rubens. Antwerp, Belgium: De Sikkel, 1952. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 148-149 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 442 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n81 Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: Reproduced: p. 40 url: Held, Julius S. Rubens; Selected Drawings. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon Press, 1959. page number: url: Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: Cat. no. 21 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 119 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n143 Aymar, Gordon Christian. The Art of Portrait Painting; Portraits Through the Centuries As Seen Through the Eyes of a Practicing Portrait Painter. Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Book Co, 1967. page number: Reproduced: p. 129, pl. 62 url: Cabanne, Pierre. Rubens. London, United Kingdom : Thames & Hudson. 1967. page number: Reproduced: p. 187 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 119 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n143 Rubens, Peter Paul, and Didier Bodart. Rubens e la pittura fiamminga del Seicento nelle collezioni pubbliche fiorentine = Rubens et la peinture flamande du XVIIème siècle dans les collections publiques florentines : Firenze, Palazzo Pitti, 22. VII-9.X. 1977 : catalogo. Firenze, Italy: Centro Di, 1977. page number: Reproduced: p. 204, no. 85 url: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten. P.P. Rubens: Paintings-Oilsketches-Drawings : [Exhibition], 29th June-30th September 1977. Antwerp, Belgium: Royal Museum of Fine Arts, 1977. page number: Reproduced: no. 50 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 154 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n174 Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1979. page number: Mentioned: p. 244 url: Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 3. European paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue Series. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 24-28, fig. 10 url: Heiden, Rüdiger an der. Peter Paul Rubens und die Bildnisse seiner Familie in der Alten Pinakothek. München, Germany: Hirmer, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 12; Reproduced: p. 13, pl 6 url: Larson, Dean M. Studying with the Masters: Lessons from Rubens, Velázquez, Turner, Degas, Monet, Sargent, Matisse. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1986. page number: Reproduced: p. 15 url: Gemäldegalerie (Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz). Masterworks of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin: with a history of the collection. New York, NY: Abrams, 1986. page number: Reproduced: p. 198 url: Burchard, Ludwig. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Peter Paul Rubens Based on the Material Assembled by the Late Dr. Ludwig Burchard in Twenty-Six Parts. 1968. page number: Reproduced: p. 54-55, vol.2 url: Jaffé, Michael. Rubens: catalogo completo. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1989. page number: Mentioned: p. 264-265; Reproduced: no, 786 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: no. 18 url: Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992. page number: Reproduced: p. 118 url: Bauman, Guy, and Walter A. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America. Antwerp, Belgium: Fonds Mercator, 1992. page number: Reproduced: p. 359, fig. 391 url: Takahashi, Yūko. Rūbensu = Peter Paul Rubens. Tōkyō, Japan: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 36, no. 33 url: Mallory, Nina A. La pintura flamenca del siglo XVII. Madrid, Spain: Alianza, 1995. page number: Reproduced: p. 136 url: Dalemans, René, and Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens et son temps. Brussels, Belgium: Editions Artis-Historia, 2000. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 70-71 url: Jiminez, Jill Berk, and Joanna Banham. Dictionary of Artists' Models. London, United Kingdom: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 80 url: Rubens: Lille, Palais Des Beaux-Arts, 6 March-14 June 2004. Gent, Belgium: Snoeck, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 128, no. 68; Mentioned: p.130 url: Schröder,Klaus Albrecht, Heinz Widauer, and Anne-Marie S. Logan. Peter Paul Rubens. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 350, fig. 1 url: Tijs, Rutger J. De andere Rubens: activiteiten, interesses, leefwereld. Leuven, Belgium: Davidsfonds, 2004. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 216-217 url: Brejon de Lavergnée, Barbara, Michèle Moyne, and Annie Scottez-De Wambrechies. Catalogue des dessins français du XIXe siècle: collection du Palais des beaux-arts de Lille. Paris, France: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 128, 130 url: Wheelock, Arthur K. Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 38, fig. 2 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Reproduced: 186-187 url: Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 186-187 url: Vergara, Alexander, and Friso Lammertse. The Young Van Dyck. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson. 2013. page number: Reproduced: p. 330, fig. 113 url: Beneden, Ben van, and Nils Büttner. Rubens in Private: The Master Portrays His Family. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2015. page number: url: Cuzin, Jean-Pierre, et. al. Le Saint Joseph Charpentier de Georges de la Tour: Un Don au Louvre de Percy Moore Turner. [Gent]: Snoeck, 2017. page number: Mentioned: p. 225 & 492, n. 2696; p. 230 & 493, n. 2773 url: Hauspie, Gunter. The Peter Paul Rubens Atlas. Tiel: Lannoo, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 87 url: Dijn, Rosine de. De vrouwen van Rubens. Kalmthout, België: Polis, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p.[9]; color plate section url: Lyon, J. Vanessa. Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 74-75, fig. 1.22 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. page number: Reproduced: p. 27 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952/page/n27/mode/2up --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.207/1947.207_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.207/1947.207_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.207/1947.207_full.tif