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Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)
Lot 259

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

Ceres with attendant nymphs

Closed9 June 2010

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Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)
Ceres with attendant nymphs
oil on canvas
81½ x 60¼ in. (207 x 153 cm.), unframed

(Probably) Château de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, by 1855.
(Probably) Philippe Lenoir and M.K. Bich; sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 24 March 1953, lot 54.
Birmingham, Alabama, Museum of Art, by 1961; Sotheby's, New York, 27 January 2005, lot 130 ($102,000).

Specialist note

The present painting repeats the composition by Rubens in the Prado, Madrid and the related oil sketch in the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. It is among the finest of the recorded copies of the composition and was described by Ludwig Burchard (in a letter from 1960) as 'painted in Rubens's studio with competence and brilliance. The fruit, the parrots and the monkey seem to be by the hand of Frans Snyders.' Other copies include works in the Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo and Sanssouci, Potsdam.