A hero crowned by Victory

Details

Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)
A hero crowned by Victory
oil on panel
20 x 26 in. (51 x 67 cm.)
the reverse is branded with a panel maker's stamp

Provenance

Sir Joseph Robinson Bt., London; his sale, Christie's, London, 6 July 1923, lot 86, as Rubens, where bought back and thence by descent until Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1988, lot 104.

Literature

A. Schard, 'The Robinson Collection', The Burlington Magazine, C, September 1958, p. 303, as doubting the attribution to Rubens.
J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens, Princetown, 1980, I, p. 363, under no. 269, as follower of Rubens.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, The Robinson Collection, 1958, no. 6 and reproduced in the Souvenir catalogue, no. 13, as Rubens.
Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, The Sir Joseph Robinson Collection, 1959, no. 24, as Rubens.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung Sir Joseph Robinson 1840-1929, 1962, no. 17, as Rubens.

Lot Essay

The present work follows, with simplifications, Rubens' The Triumphant Victor of circa 1613 in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel. The original oil sketch for the Kassel panel is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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