id: 131584 accession number: 1954.2.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.2.a updated: 2025-02-21 12:04:18.848000 The Feast of Herod (recto), 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.a title: The Feast of Herod (recto) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1637–38 creation date earliest: 1637 creation date latest: 1638 current location: creditline: Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds copyright: --- culture: Flanders technique: pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk, touched with white gouache department: Drawings collection: DR - Flemish type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(2) laid paper, perimeter mounted to a false margin of beige(1) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: 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?]. translation: remark: --- 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: 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: 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: 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: 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Unidentified collector (Lugt 622, verso, lower right, in black ink, probably Austrian collection c. 1800); English private collection (According to Burchard and d'Hulst, Antwerp, 1956); [Herbert N. Bier]. Purchased by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1954. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Francis, Henry. "The Preliminary Pen and Ink Drawing for the 'Feast of Herod' nu Peter Paul Rubens." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 6 (June 1954): 124-127. page number: Reproduced: p. 114; Mentioned: p. 124 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141969 Fogg Art Museum. Drawings & Oil Sketches by P.P. Rubens, from American Collections. Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; New York, NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1956. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 25-26, no. 26, pl. 26 url: 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 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. 588 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n110 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 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 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 Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 29-32 url: 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 url: DeGrazia, Diane 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 url: Logan, Anne-Marie S., and Michiel Plomp. Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 112, p. 300 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.2.a/1954.2.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.2.a/1954.2.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.2.a/1954.2.a_full.tif