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Peter Paul Rubens
Moses and the Brazen Serpent
Literature
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Peter Paul Rubens
Moses and the Brazen Serpent
1609-10
159 x 144 cm
Oil on panel
The Courtauld Gallery, London
Princes Gate Collection
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
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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