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Reconciliation of the Romans and the Sabines (recto) Venus Disarming Mars, Drapery Study (verso)

c. 1632/35

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Peter Paul Rubens

(Flemish, 1577–1640)

Flanders, 17th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash; framing lines in brown ink

Sheet: 19.9 x 49.2 cm (7 13/16 x 19 3/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1970.37

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

ON AN OLD SUPPORT (now removed): in graphite: 200 x 489 mm ; in graphite: Rubens [JUS ?] ; stamped in red ink: ZOLL / I-26 / + [circled] (according to departmental cataloging sheet this is a Swiss customs stamp) ; ON AN OLD SUPPORT (now removed): embosed in red ink: P.P. Rubens ; ON OLD BACKING? (now removed): in blue ink: Versöhnung der Römer und Sabiner / auf der Rückseite: Venus entwaffnen Mars / ausst. von Rubens zeichnungen, / antwerpen, Rubenshaus sommer 1956 No 117 ; in graphite: Royal accademy, winter exhibition 1953/4

Citations
Büttner, Nils. Rubens: Allegories and Subjects from Literature. London : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2018. Mentioned: p. 189
Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983).

Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).

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