Lot Essay
A reduced replica of the very large canvas (380 x 240cm.), signed and dated 1649, painted for the Oranjezaal in the Huis ten Bosch (M.-L. Hairs, Dans le Sillage de Rubens. Les Peintres d'Histoire anversois au XVIIe Sicle, 1977, p. 129 and fig. 33).