Garland with Natura Adorned by the Three Graces

1627	England	Possibly sale by Rubens to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
1635		Villiers Gallery
1648	Antwerp, Belgium	Possibly sale to the 2nd Duke of Buckingham
May 19 1716	Paris, France	Purchased by Chirurgen Rondon for Sir James Thornill\|
1734	London, England	Sale, Thornhill Collection, Lot #99
May 29 1746	London, England	Sale, Mary Edwards Collection, Lot #140
1771	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Sale, Braamcamp Collection, Lot #194
	England	Returned to the English Collection
May 31 1794	London, England	Sale, Lawrence Dundas Auction of Collection of Dr. Ward, inv. #36
1804	Wales	Collection of the Earl of Ashburnham
Jul 20 1850	London, England	Sale, Ashburnham Collection, Lot #62
May 15 1852		Sale, Woodburg Collection, Lot #192
1877	Scotland	Collection of Graham Gilbert
1877	Glasgow, Scotland	Donated to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum by the widow of Graham Gilbert

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Bibliography

Walpole 1758, #11

Rooses 1886-1892, IV, #821

Oldenburg in Rubens catalog, 1921, #61

Evers 1943, pp. 237, 243-44

Held 1959, I, under #75

Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, cat. 1961, p.117, fig. 609

Hairs 1965, pp. 73, 301, 359, n. 180

Ertz 1979, fig. 387, cat. #349

Freedberg 1981, p. 132

Robels 1989, p. 356

Schuckman 1995, fig. 23

Van Mulders 2000, pp. 119-20

Los Angeles/The Hague 2006, pp.157, 162-63 & fig. 83

McGrath 2006

Ertz 2008-10, pp. 1033-35, cat. #490

Exhibition History

London 1912, #14

London, R.A., 1938, #65

London, 1953/54, #194

Bruges 1956, #64

Brussels 2007, #24

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Elizabeth Honig

Sat, 2015-02-07 16:00

Was engraved by Cornelis van Dalen the Younger, probably before 1648, without Jan's garland (See Schuckman 1995, "Hollstein" V., #23).

According to Van Mulders, Rubens kept this painting himself until 1624 when it went to Prince Wadislas of Poland and then to the Duke of Buckingham.

The garland in this picture is reused on collaborations between Jan and Van Balen. Although no drawing for this garland survives, the one that does (Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus, inv. D.IX.23) confirms (unsurprisingly) that Jan’s garlands were meant to be replicated using detailed drawn studies.

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