. Illustrated catalogue of the private collection of valuable paintings by the old masters and early English artists formed by the late Leon Hirsch of New York. revealing a muscular neck. Mentioned by Dr. W. R. Valentiner in his Zeitschrift fiir bildende Kunst, 1911. Dr. Valentiner has written specially about this picture in his art magazine,published in this city, as one of the prominent Rubens studies in America. Dr. Friedlander, in a letter dated on board the steamship Augusta Victoria,November 24, 1909, wrote: I consider the Rubens sketch an excellent one, bythe hand of the great master. I
. Illustrated catalogue of the private collection of valuable paintings by the old masters and early English artists formed by the late Leon Hirsch of New York. revealing a muscular neck. Mentioned by Dr. W. R. Valentiner in his Zeitschrift fiir bildende Kunst, 1911. Dr. Valentiner has written specially about this picture in his art magazine,published in this city, as one of the prominent Rubens studies in America. Dr. Friedlander, in a letter dated on board the steamship Augusta Victoria,November 24, 1909, wrote: I consider the Rubens sketch an excellent one, bythe hand of the great master. In a letter of February 10, 1912, Dr. R. Oldenbourg wrote from Munich:Especially interesting is the study for a head, by Rubens, as I have lately studiedthe works of this master more closely. Your painting seems to have been createdfairly early, about 1615, together with The Man in the Fur Coat in the Viennagallery, the technique of which is very similar. It is imdoubtedly a study for The Ascension of Mary or a similar picture,and was painted by Rubens as an example from which his pupils had to executelarge commissions. The picture interests me very ^^
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