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Pierre-Joseph Verhagen
The Continence of Scipio
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Pierre-Joseph Verhagen
The Continence of Scipio
106 x 141 cm
Oil on canvas
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Literature
Natalya Gritsay and Natalya Babina,
The State Hermitage Museum catalogue of Flemish painting
, New Haven, 2008, nr. 494
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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