School of Antwerp, 1626

A triptych with the Adoration of the Shepherds on the central compartment, the Annunciation and a female donor, aged 36, attended by Saint Catherine on the wings

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School of Antwerp, 1626
A triptych with the Adoration of the Shepherds on the central compartment, the Annunciation and a female donor, aged 36, attended by Saint Catherine on the wings
dated and inscribed on the right wing Aeta.Suae 36A/1626
oil on panel
central compartment 65.5 x 52.3 cm; wings 65.5 x 21 cm

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The composition on the central compartment follows the right half of the engraving of 1620 by L. Vorsterman (Holl.7) after a drawing of Sir P.P. Rubens in the Louvre, Paris (inv.no.20.138). Rubens' drawing is a study for the predella of his altarpiece for the Church of Saint John in Malines, kept since 1802 in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Marseille.

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