Landscape by Moonlight - Rubens Landscape Panels

Object details

TitleLandscape by Moonlight

Technique and supportOil on panel

Dimensions64 x 90

Inventory numberP.1978.PG.380

Collection and provenance

CollectionCourtauld Gallery, London

Provenance

Possibly no. 173 in inventory after Rubens‘ death;
James Boswell(?);
Sir Joshua Reynolds by 1778, sold Christie’s, 11ff. Mar. 1795 (85);
Earl of Bessborough, sold Christie’s, 5ff. Feb. 1801 (72);
J Willett Willett, sold London, 31ff. May 1813 (84);
Earl of Mulgrave, sold Christie’s, 12 May 1832 (70);
Samuel Rogers, sold Christie’s, 25 June 1892 (30): Ludwig Mond; by descent;
acquired by Count Antoine Seilern from Lord Melchett, 1935;
Executors of the Estate of Count Seilern;
The Samuel Courtauld Trust (purchased from the Executors of the Estate of Count Seilern with the assistance of the V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the National Heritage Memorial Fund), 1981.

Literature

REYNOLDS 1778, p. 161

SMITH 1830, II, p. 197, no. 707; 1842, IX, p. 313, no. 248

WAAGEN 1837, I, pp. 412, 413

WAAGEN 1840, p. 103

Waagen 1854, II, p. 79, no. 3

ROOSES 1890, pp. 375, 376, no. 1189

ROOSES 1896, IV, p. 216; 1900, V, p. 325

BURCKHARDT 1898, p. 317

ROOSES 1904, p. 374

ROSENBERG 1906, pp. 403, 485

DILLON 1909, p. 234, pl. CCCCLXIII

RICHTER 1910, II, pp. 591-594

OLDENBOURG 1921, p. 397

KAUFFMANN 1923, p. 110

FRY 1927, p. 144, pl. V, A

STERLING 1928, pp. 184, 187, 193, 199,n

BORENIUS 1930, p. 352

HERRMANN 1936, pp. 18, 26, 37, 39, 40, 58, 65, n. 5, 71, n. 51, 84, n. 161

CORNETTE 1939, pp. 738-40

RACZYŃSKI 1937, pp. 81, 94, n. 172

ROTH 1945, pp. 76, 184, fig. 90

GLÜCK 1940, pp. 45, 46, 71, 72, no.38

MAURER 1951, p. 110

SEILERN 1955, no. 41, pl. LXXXVIII

GERSON AND TER KUILE 1960, p. 108, pl. 140

Stechow 1968, pp. 179, 180, 221, nn. 27, 28, fig. 361

ADLER 1982, pp. 172-4, no. 63, fig. 146

BRAHAM AND BRUCE-GARDNER 1988, pp. 579-96

BROWN 1996, pp. 11, 30, 76, 90, 99, 102, 121, fig. 72

LIEDTKE 1997, p. 55, fig. 82

BROWN 2000, p. 275

KLEINERT 2014, pp. 27-29, 39, 47, 53, 75f., 105, 145, 151, 169, pl. 27

DAVIS 2020, pp. 27, 48-9, 87, 88, fig. 2.19

AVERY-QUASH AND DAVIS 2023, pp. 74, 75

KLEINERT 2023, p. 116

WATTEEUW 2023, p. 139, fig. 3

Consult the bibliography.

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