Artist |
Peter Paul Rubens
(1577–1640) |
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Alternative names |
Rubens, Pierre Paul Rubens, Pieter Paul Rubens, Sir Peter Paul Rubens |
Description |
Flemish painter, sculptor, drawer and printmaker |
Date of birth/death |
28 June 1577 |
30 May 1640 |
Location of birth/death |
Siegen |
Antwerp |
Work period |
16th century date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 |
Work location |
Antwerp (1589-1600), Mantua (9 May 1600-1608), Spain (1603), Antwerp (1608-1640), Netherlands (1612), Paris (23 May 1623-29 June 1623, 4 February 1625-9 June 1625), Calais (November 1626), Paris (December 1626), Brussels (1627), Netherlands (10 July 1627-6 August 1627), Spain (26 August 1628-29 April 1629), London (18 May 1629-23 March 1630), Brussels (1631), Netherlands (November 1631), Affligem (September 1634) |
Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q5599 |
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Object history |
Property of the Saint-Marcel shop of the Royal Manufactory of Tapestries, Paris, under the directorship of Marc de Comans and François de la Planche, and later Hippolyte de Comans (Director of the Gobelins factory), by 1627;
Henri de Valois (1603-1676), Paris;
Philippe, Duc d'Orléans (le Régent), Paris;
Louis, Duc d'Orléans;
Thence by descent to Philippe (Égalité) Duc d'Orléans; By whom sold with all the Flemish, Dutch, and German paintings from the Orléans collection to a syndicate consisting of George, Lord Kinnaird, William Morland, and Mr. Hammersley, and imported by its agent, Thomas Moore Slade, 1792; exhibited at Mr. Slade's house in Chatham the following year; and exhibited for sale by private contract at no. 125 Pall Mall, April - mid-June 1793 (unsold); Thomas Hammersley, London, until at least 1811; Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 7 March 1801 (2nd day), lot 78, (bought in); Anonymous sale, London, Coxe, 11 June 1808, lot 7; Stamp Brooksbank, Esq., London, by 1830; His deceased sale, London, Stanley, 31 May 1834, lot 87, for 21 gns.; Probably Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton (1864-1928), seventh duke of Newcastle and fourteenth earl of Lincoln; His sale, London, Christie's, 1 June 1937, lot 90 (with three other panels, as "The Story of Decius Mus-a set of four"); With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by 1940; H.E.M. Benn, Ilkley, Haslemere and Bognor Regis; With P & D Colnaghi, London; Anonymous sale ("From a Private Collection"), London, Christie's, 11 December 1992, lot 59; Anonymous sale ("From a Private Collection"), New York, Christie's, 12 January 1994, lot 104; There purchased by the last collector. |