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

Details

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.)

Provenance

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

Literature

H. Gerson, J.W. Goodison and D. Sutton, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Catalogue of Paintings, Volume I: Dutch and Flemish Paintings, Cambridge, 1960, p. 105, under no. 241.
N. de Poorter, The Eucharist Series, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, London and New York, I and II, 1978, p. 368, under no. 15c, copy 1.
J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: A Critical Catalogue, Princeton, 1980, pp. 158-159, under no. 110, copy 1.

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Lot Essay

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.

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