Peter Paul Rubens

Literature

Koenraad Jonckheere, The Auction of King William's Paintings 1713, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2008, fig. 56
Alejandro Vergara and Friso Lammertse (eds.), The Young Van Dyck, New York, NY, 2013, fig. 59

Iconclass

71E3243 Anyone who is bitten by a snake is cured by looking at the brazen serpent; the serpent (or dragon) is usually depicted on a tau-shaped cross or on a pillar

Other works by Peter Paul Rubens

Queen Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus
c. 1622-23

The Deposition
c. 1612-14

Judith with the head of Holofernes

Pan and Syrinx
c. 1617

The kermis
c. 1635