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Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

The Triumph of the Church

after 1628

follower of Peter Paul Rubens

(Flemish, 1577–1640)
Flanders
oil on wood
Framed: 129.5 x 96.5 x 8.5 cm (51 x 38 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 74.1 x 105.7 cm (29 3/16 x 41 5/8 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1037
Location: Not on view

Description

This work is likely a copy after Rubens’s oil sketch for the Triumph of the Eucharist tapestry series. Isabella, daughter of King Phillip II of Spain, commissioned the tapestries for a royal monastery in Madrid. The finished tapestries still hang there today, and the original oil sketch is in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
  • Madrazo (Madrid, Spain);
    M. Thiers, President of the French Republic (Paris, France);
    Duchesse de Bauffremont (Paris, France);
    E. Warneck (Paris, France);
    - 1891 Durand-Ruel (Paris, France);
    1891 - 1914 Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha H. Wade (Gates Mills, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
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  • {{cite web|title=The Triumph of the Church|url=false|author=Peter Paul Rubens|year=after 1628|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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