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A repetition with minor variations of the sketch by Rubens, datable
circa 1618-20. (J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens, I, 1980, pp.589-90, no. 429, plate 416). Held, loc.cit., notes another copy, in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, which he attributes to either Frans Francken II or III. He further notes that it forms a pair to another copy, after Rubens' Virgin and Child with St. Anne, in the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna
circa 1618-20. (J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens, I, 1980, pp.589-90, no. 429, plate 416). Held, loc.cit., notes another copy, in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, which he attributes to either Frans Francken II or III. He further notes that it forms a pair to another copy, after Rubens' Virgin and Child with St. Anne, in the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna