Peter Paul Rubens (studio of) Head of a Young Man. Black chalk on cream laid paper mounted on laid paper. 121 x 105mm; 4.125 x 4.125 inches. Ex- collection Joshua Reynolds, on his mount inscribed with his name and with the inventory number "95" in

Peter Paul Rubens (studio of) Head of a Young Man. Black chalk on cream laid paper mounted on laid paper. 121 x 105mm; 4.125 x 4.125 inches. Ex- collection Joshua Reynolds, on his mount inscribed with his name and with the inventory number "95" in ink (see Lugt 2364 Likely a study for Daniel in the Lion's Den, oil, Collection 1628, National Gallery of Art, Washington, but possibly also a study for the head of Christ in The Raising of the Cross, oil, 1610, Antwerp. In the estate sale of Peynolds's drawings at A. C. de Poggi, London, in 1794, at Philips, London, in 1798, and several other sales in the early de Poggi, London, in 1794, at Philips, London, Rubens, though the auctioneers offer only minimal cataloguing on the lots, in most cases only the names of the artists.