THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
After SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)

Details
After SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)

The Death of Adonis

oil on panel
13¼ x 20½in. (33.6 x 52.1cm.)
Provenance
Lord Rivers, thence by descent to Captain G. Pitt-Rivers; sale, Christie's, London, July 15, 1949, lot 84
Literature
J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens, 1980, I, p. 307, no. 222.2, as a copy

Lot Essay

Julius Held (loc. cit.) lists the above lot as a copy after the original sketch by Rubens in the Princeton Art Museum, Princeton N.J. According to an old label on the reverse and as noted by Held (loc. cit.), Dr. L. Burchard and Dr. G. Gluck consider the above lot to be a work by Rubens