The present pair was commissioned by an ancestor of the vendor who had had copies made when the originals, on panel, 72 x 57 cm, were sold to the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels in 1874 (see M. Rooses, L'Oeuvre de P.P. Rubens, 1890, IV, no. 920 and no. ... respectively)

in the original 19th century black painted compostition frames

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