id: 131583
accession number: 1954.2
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The Feast of Herod (recto) Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus (verso), c. 1637–38. Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640). Pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk, touched with white gouache; sheet: 27.2 x 47.2 cm (10 11/16 x 18 9/16 in.); secondary support: 27.6 x 47.3 cm (10 7/8 x 18 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1954.2
title: The Feast of Herod (recto) Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus (verso)
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creation date: c. 1637–38
creation date earliest: 1637
creation date latest: 1638
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creditline: Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
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culture: Flanders
technique: pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk, touched with white gouache
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Flemish
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 27.2 x 47.2 cm (10 11/16 x 18 9/16 in.); Secondary Support: 27.6 x 47.3 cm (10 7/8 x 18 5/8 in.)
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inscription: by artist, upper center, in brown ink: de Herodias [wat hooger? (or: "meden hoofte," "wat hoegte," or "wat hogher")]; by artist, lower right, in brown ink: den[or: deze] stoel te [cort?].
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Tekeningen van P.P. Rubens
opening date: 1956-06-16T04:00:00
Tekeningen van P.P. Rubens. Rubenshuis, Antwerpen, Belgium (June 16-September 25, 1956).
title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition
opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00
Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).
title: Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries
opening date: 1960-05-18T04:00:00
Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960).
title: Drawings
opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00
Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).
title: Old Master Drawings
opening date: 1964-03-10T05:00:00
Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964).
title: Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands
opening date: 1965-01-01T05:00:00
Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).
title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection
opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00
Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).
title: Old Master Prints and Drawings
opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00
Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).
title: Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collection
opening date: 1967-03-29T05:00:00
Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 29-June 6, 1967).
title: Drawings from the Museum Collection
opening date: 1967-06-09T04:00:00
Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968).
title: Drawings
opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00
Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968).
title: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism
opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00
Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).
title: Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics
opening date: 1982-04-27T04:00:00
Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).
title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00
Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983).
title: National Schools of Style
opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00
National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).
title: Baroque Imagery
opening date: 1984-11-06T05:00:00
Baroque Imagery. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985).
title: Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections
opening date: 1994-01-04T05:00:00
Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 4-February 20, 1994).
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
title: Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): The Drawings
opening date: 2005-01-18T00:00:00
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): The Drawings. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (January 18-April 3, 2005).
title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00
Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Unidentified collector, probably Austria (Lugt 622)
date: ca. 1800-1900
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Private collection, England
date: ca. 1900-1953
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with Herbert N. Bier, London
date: 1953
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1954-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 29-32
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Burchard, Ludwig, "Rubens' 'Feast of Herod' at Port Sunlight," Burlington Magazine Vol. XCV No 609 (December 1953):pp 383-387.
page number: p. 387
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Held, Julius S. "Rubens' 'Feast of Herod'." The Burlington Magazine 96, no. 613 (1954): 122.
page number: p. 122
url: www.jstor.org/stable/871368.
Fogg Art Museum. Drawings & Oil Sketches by P.P. Rubens, from American Collections. Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; New York, NY: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1956.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 25-26, no. 26, pl. 26
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Burchard, Ludwig and Roger Adolf d' Hulst. Tekeningen van P.P. Rubens. Antwerpen: Uitgeverij Ontwikkeling, 1956.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 107-8, no. 131, pl. 59
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Held, Julius S., "Drawings and Oil Sketches by Rubens from American Collections," Burlington Magazine XCVII/637 (April 1956): pp. 123-125.
page number: p. 124, fig 34 (verso)
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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. 587, 588
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n110
Held, Julius S. Rubens: Selected Drawings. London: Phaidon Press, 1959.
page number: I:p. 124, no. 67, pl. 77
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Burchard, Ludwig, and Roger Adolf d' Hulst. Rubens Drawings. Brussels: Arcade Press, 1963.
page number: I:313-316, no. 196, 2:pl. 196r (rect), 196v (verso)
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Jaffé, Michael, "Cleveland Museum of Art, The Figurative Arts of the West, ca. 1400-1800," Apollo LXXVIII (Dec. 1963): pp. 457-467.
page number: p. 466
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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
Hofstede, Justus Muller. Review, "L. Burchard and R.-A. d'Hulst: Rubens Drawings," Master Drawings Vol. IV No. 4 (1966): pp. 435-454.
page number: pp. 436, 454
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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
Logan, Anne-Marie. ""Two Armored Soldiers Fighting", a Late Drawing by Peter Paul Rubens." Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 34, no. 1 (1972): 16-18.
page number: p.18
url: www.jstor.org/stable/40482375.
Logan, Anne-Marie. "Rubens Exhibitions 1977." Master Drawings15, no. 4 (1977): 403-71.
page number: p. 407
url: www.jstor.org/stable/1553403.
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
Thompson, Colin and Hugh Brigstocke. Shorter Catalogue. National Gallery of Scotland. 1978.
page number: p. 93 under no. 2193
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Berger, Robert W., "Rubens's 'Queen Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus'," MFA Bulletin Vol 77 (1979):PP. 4-35
page number: pp. 24-25
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Schloder, John E. Baroque Imagery. exh.cat. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1984.
page number: no. 17, pp. 43-44.
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Logan, Anne-Marie S. Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections. Wellesley, MA: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, 1993.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 203-5, no. 58
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: P. 174-75, 294; Reproduced: P. 175, cat. no. 71
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Logan, Anne-Marie S., and Michiel Plomp. Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.
page number: no. 112, p. 300
url:
Jaffé, David, Elizabeth McGrath, et al. Rubens: a master in the making. London : National Gallery Company : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2005.
page number: p. 31, fig. 22
url:
Kopecky, Veronika. Die Beischriften des Peter Paul Rubens. Uberlegungen zu handschriftlichen Vermerken auf Zeichnungen. Doctoral dissertation: Universitat Hamburg, 2008/2012
page number: pp. 10, 47-48, 86, no. 50
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Bulckens, Koen, and Paul Huvenne. Rubens: The Ministry of Christ. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2017.
page number: Mentioned: p. 27, 81-83, 87, 166; reproduced: pp. 218-219, fig. 62 and 63
url:
Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works. Cleveland, [1967?]
page number: no. 163
url:
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