Jan Victors

The Magnanimity of Scipio



Jan Victors - The Magnanimity of Scipio



Jan Victors
The Magnanimity of Scipio
1640
196.5 x 223.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Hermitage, St. Petersburg


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler IV, Landau/Pfalz, 1989, nr. 1726

Literature
Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt's rivals, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2015, fig. VII-42


Iconclass

98B(SCIPIO AFRICANUS MAJOR)51 The continence of Scipio: he restores a captive woman to her bridegroom Allucius, who kneels before him; the ransom offered by the bride's parents is given to Allucius as a wedding-gift

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