Live Auction 2676Old Master Paintings Part II
Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)
Lot 229 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 

Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)

Eucharistic Teachers and Saints: Gregory, Ambrose, Augustine, Clara, Thomas Aquinas, Norbert and Jerome, with the dove of the Holy Spirit

Closed31 January 2013

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Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)
Eucharistic Teachers and Saints: Gregory, Ambrose, Augustine, Clara, Thomas Aquinas, Norbert and Jerome, with the dove of the Holy Spirit
oil on panel, unframed
19 3/8 x 24 5/8 in. (49.2 x 62.6 cm.)

Frederick A. Szarvasky, 74 Portland Place, London; (+) Christie's, London, 17 November 1950, lot 39, as 'Sir P.P. Rubens' (130 gns. to Paez).

Specialist note

This composition relates to Rubens' design for a tapestry in the Royal Monastery of Las Descalzas Reales, Madrid. A preliminary sketch for the tapestry is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; a subsequent modello is in the Prado, Madrid; and a large, painted cartoon is in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida (J.S. Held, op. cit., pp. 157-158, nos. 109-110, figs. 112-113). This painting relates most closely in design to the modello in the Prado, although it excludes the baroque architectural framing, swags of fruit, trumpets and cherubs.