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Circle of Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp)
Lot 129

Circle of Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp)

The Christ Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in a landscape

Closed7 July 2010

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GBP 30,000

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Circle of Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp)
The Christ Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in a landscape
oil on canvas
44 x 58 5/8 in. (111.7 x 148.9 cm.)

Marchese Ippolito Spinola, Genoa, until 1862.
Sir John S. Murray, Galashields and Selkirk, Scotland, late 19th Century.
A. Szerski, Berne and Zurich.
with The Norton Galleries, New York, from whom acquired in 1954 by Walter P. Chrysler, New York, 1954-1975.
Private collection, Dallas, 1975-1981.

Specialist note

This painting, which is after a celebrated, lost Rubens of circa 1628 (known through a Christoffel Jegher woodcut), is described by Jaffé as: 'tra le numerose repliche di bottega [studio replicas] una delle miglori è conservata nella collezione di Walter P. Chrysler' (op. cit).