Lot Essay
This small altarpiece, which was in the collection of Count Demidoff at San Donato, has not been accessable to scholars since it was sold in Brussels in 1921.
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY AND A GENTLEMAN
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Details
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
The Entombment
51 5/8 x 51¼in. (131.1 x 130.2cm.)
The Entombment
51 5/8 x 51¼in. (131.1 x 130.2cm.)
Provenance
Artoria, Vienna
Count Paul Demidoff, San Donato, Florence; sale, Paris, 18 April 1868, lot 13 (25,000 francs to Madame Blanche Cachin)
The Marquise Landolfo Carcano; sale, Paris, 30 May-1 June 1912, lot 172 (47,000 francs)
Charles-Léon Cardon; sale, Fiévez, Brussels, 27 June 1921, lot 96 (42,000 francs)
Count Paul Demidoff, San Donato, Florence; sale, Paris, 18 April 1868, lot 13 (25,000 francs to Madame Blanche Cachin)
The Marquise Landolfo Carcano; sale, Paris, 30 May-1 June 1912, lot 172 (47,000 francs)
Charles-Léon Cardon; sale, Fiévez, Brussels, 27 June 1921, lot 96 (42,000 francs)
Literature
M. Rooses, L'oeuvre de P. P. Rubens, II, Antwerp, 1888, p.134
Exhibited
Antwerp, 1914
Engraved
Rosart Theer, Vienna (lithograph)