Peter Paul Rubens

Literature

Lyckle de Vries, Stories in gilded frames, Amsterdam, 2016, fig. I

Provenance

Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, Munich (until 1706)
seized by Emperor Joseph I and presented to Churchill, 1706
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire (1706–died 1722)
the Dukes of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace (1722–1883)
George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace (1883–died 1892)
his sale, Christie's, London, 24 and 26 July 1886, nr. 75, bought in by Agnew for Marlborough
his widow, Lilian Warren, Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, later Lady William Leslie de la Poer Beresford (1892–died 1909)
Colonel Oliver Payne, New York (1909–died 1917)
his nephew, Harry Payne Bingham (1917–37, on loan to MMA, 1920–37)

External links

RKD 58200
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 37.162

Other works by Peter Paul Rubens

Death of Sylvia's Stag

Banquet of Tereus

The Raising of the Cross
c. 1620

Saturn Devouring his Children

Landscape with Watering Place: Effect of Sunrise
c. 1638