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Pieter Codde
The Magnanimity of Scipio
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Pieter Codde
The Magnanimity of Scipio
c. 1633-35
54.6 x 75.5 cm
Oil on panel
The Leiden Collection, New York
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Rosen
142
Literature
Eric Jan Sluijter,
Rembrandt's rivals
, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2015, fig. V-60
Exhibitions
2023
Rembrandt and His Contemporaries. History paintings from The Leiden Collection
, Nr. 5
Provenance
Sale Christie's London, 7 July 2006
Iconclass
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
External links
Leiden Collection, New York
Accession number
PC-100
Other works by Pieter Codde
Figures merrymaking in a guardroom interior
Diana and her Nymphs
1651
Dancing Lesson
1627
An Interior with Musicians Seated around a Table
The Dead Adonis Lamented by Venus, the Three Graces and Cupid
c. 1640-45