Copy after an antique cameo.
Peter Paul Rubens
The 'Apotheosis of Germanicus'
100.7 x 78 cmGrisaille heightened in brown on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Literature
Christopher White, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, catalogue of the collection of paintings, Oxford; New York, 1999, pp. 117-123
Provenance
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, for whom painted
apparently bequeathed to Jacques Dupuy
bequeathed to President Jacques-Auguste de Thou II, 1656, by Jacques Dupuy
De Buscher sale, Paillet, Delaroche, Paris, 18 June 1804, nr. 185, bought De Tersan
Charles-Philippe. Campion de Tersan sale, Paris, 8-30 November 1819, nr. 459
possibly M. Maurice sale, Paillet, Chariot, Paris, 8 November 1820, nr. 152
Shortening sale, Broseley, Shropshire, 12 March 1940, nr. 236, bought Christopher Norris
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, bequeathed by Christopher Norris, 1988
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Other works by Peter Paul Rubens
The Birth of the Dauphine
Saint Sebastian
St Jerome
The Arrival in Lyon
Andromeda