Peter Paul Rubens

Moses and the Brazen Serpent



Peter Paul Rubens - Moses and the Brazen Serpent



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


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

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