École de Pierre-Paul RUBENS

School of Pierre-Paul RUBENS Siegen, 1577 - 1640, Anvers Les trois Grâces Sanguine, pierre noire et plume 15 x 10 cm - 5 7/8 x 4 in. Sold framed The three Graces, red chalk, black chalk and pen PROVENANCE Bearing at lower left the stamp of the collection of Thomas Hudson (1701 - 1779) (L. 2432)| the cachet of the collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792) (L. 2364)| the cachet of the collection of Sir John Charles Robinson (1824 - 1913) (L. 1433)| then according to the label of Galerie Jean-Paul Meulemeester, Brussels: collections William Dyce, R.A. (?) (1806 - 1864)| John Malcom (1805 - 1893)| Geof frey Gathorne-Hardy (1878 - 1972)| The Hon. Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902 - 1973)| private collection, Belgium. BIBLIOGRAPHY P.D. Colnaghi, Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy Collection, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford, 1971, no. 61 (as "Follower of Peter Paul Rubens") NOTE Michael Jaffé dated this drawing to 1640 and suggested it might be by Erasmus Quellin. He also compared it to another in the collection of Count Antoine Seilern.