Peter Paul Rubens

Illustration number 0000351796
Dimensions: 1200x925 pixels
License undetermined

Illustration number 0000010644
Dimensions: 650x568 pixels
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Object category

Physical connection Reference in ‘composite artworks’: artworks that are/were connected, such as alterpieces, decorative pieces incorporated in panelling, and works of art that were intended to be displayed together, such as pendants and series.

part of a series

Peter Paul Rubens, De dood van keizer Constantijn de Grote (part of a series)

onderdeel van een serie van twaalf olieverfschetsen voor tapijten met scènes uit het leven van Constantijn

Support/medium

panel, oil paint

Shape/dimensions

rectangle (landscape format) 54 x 69 cm

Current attribution: Peter Paul Rubens

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: 1622-1623 gedocumenteerd (1622 - 1623)

Het stuk maakt waarschijnlijk wel deel uit van de oorspronkelijke 12 ontwerpen (die tot 1792 bij elkaar bleven), maar werd nooit in tapijt uitgevoerd. I.p.daarvan werd de Dood van Constantijn uitgevoerd

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: De triomf van Rome: de jonge keizer Constantijn eert Rome
English title: The triumph of Rome: the young emperor honours Rome
Genre: history (genre)
Keywords: history (genre), personification, triumph, town (in the background), saint
Iconclass code Iconclass codes and text contain specific scenes and names. An Iconclass code or notation is a code from the multi-lingual Iconclass system for subject retrieval. For more information about this system, see www.iconclass.nl.: 11H(CONSTANTINE)
the Roman emperor Constantine the Great; possible attributes: crown, sceptre, standard (labarum) with chi-rho monogram or cross
25L(ROME)0
cities represented allegorically or symbolically: Rome - personification of a city, town-patron(ess)

Provenance

Commissioned by If the work in question was commissioned, and this is known, then the patron is noted here.: Louis XIII - king of France

ontwerpschetsen voor tapijtreeks in opdracht van Lodewijk XIII

Collection(s)

private collection Marc de Comans, Paris
directeur van de Gobelins te Parijs
1623 -
Francois de la Planche, Paris
erfgenaam van M. de Comans
private collection Hippolyte de Comans, Paris
private collection Philippe II (Duc d'Orléans), Palais-Royal (Paris)
private collection Louis Philippe II Joseph duc d' Orléans, Paris
- 1792
art dealer Thomas Moore Slade and Associates, London
private collection Charles Alexander de Calonne, Paris/London (England)
- 1795-03-28 veiling 23/28 maart 1795 te Londen
private collection Robert Banks Jenkinson (2nd Earl of Liverpool), London
- 1829-05-25 veiling te Londen
art dealer John Smith, London
private collection George-John Vernon, England
private collection John Charles Robinson, London
private collection Sir Herbert Frederick Cook (3rd Baronet), Doughty House (estate, Richmond, Surrey)
via Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit na de oorlog terug bij de eigenaar gekomen
1932 -
art dealer D. Katz, Dieren (Rheden)
van David en Nathan Katz samen
1940 - 1947
Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague , inv./cat.nr 837
geschonken door de heren D. en N. Katz
1947 -

Auction(s)

veilinghuis onbekend, Londen (Engeland), Earl of Liverpool, 1829-03-25, lotnr. 64
Skinner & Dyke (London (England)) 1795-03-23 - 1795-03-28, lotnr. 4th day nr. 30

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Olieverfschetsen van Rubens Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam (city) , 1953-12-19 - 1954-02-28 , nr. 41
P.P. Rubens : schilderijen, olieverfschetsen, tekeningen Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen , Antwerp (city) , 1977-06-29 - 1977-09-30 , nr. 60
The Orléans Collection New Orleans Museum of Art , New Orleans (Louisiana) , 2018-10-26 - 2019-01-27 , no. 22

Literature

D'Hulst 1968 , cat. 7
Held 1980 , vol.1, p. 84-85 nr 51
Jaffé 1989 , nr. 690
Schmid 2018 , p. 150, no. 22, p. 243, no. 387, p. 265 , with extensive provenance on p. 265

Mauritshuis. Illustrated general catalogue, Den Haag 1977, p. 207
Mauritshuis. Illustrated general catalogue, Amsterdam-Den Haag 1993, p. 128-129
K. Brosens, 'Who commissioned Rubens's Constantine series? A new perspective: the entrepeneurial strategy of Marc Comans and François de la Planche', Simiolus 33/3 (2007-2008), pp. 166-183

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 0000351796)
, Original location BD/RKD/0348 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature: Rubens and Anonymous School (img.nr. 0000010644)

Project: Dutch Public Collections Project

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