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RUBENS, PIETER PAUL |
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| Inv#.Lot | 232.0028 | |
| Artist Name | Rubens | |
| Authority Name | RUBENS, PIETER PAUL | |
| Qualifier | (perhaps a copy) | |
| Artist Active | Antwerp |a 1600-1640 | |
| Verbatim Entry | een dito synde een meduse van Rubens en Snyers | |
| Title | een meduse | |
| Montias Subject | MYTHOLOGY | |
| Object Type | painting | |
| Room | In de groote sael | |
| Buyer Notes | This is the painting referred to in the autobiography of Constantijn Huygens (1629-1631), which he had seen in the house of Nicolaes Sohier (S.A. Worp, Constantijn Huygens en de schilders van zijn tijd, Oud Holland, 9(1891), p. 121.) Huygens wrote that the painting was so terrifying that it was generally covered with a cloth. | |
| Present Location | This was perhaps an atelier copy of the painting of this subject now in the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum. | |
| Montias2 Record | 5355 | |
Source Information (View Inventory) | ||
| Archive | Gemeentearchief Amsterdam | |
| Call Number | 1681 | |
| Inventory Number | 232 | |
| Lot Number | 0028 | |
| Inventory Date | 1642/09/09 | |
| Owner Name | Sohier, Nicolas | |
| Purpose | death inventory | |