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

c. 1632/35

Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)

Drawings

Reconciliation of the Romans and the Sabines (recto) Venus Disarming Mars, Drapery Study (verso) , c. 1632/35. Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1970.37

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Rubens, Peter Paul
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash; framing lines in brown ink
Medium: pen, brown, ink, brush, gray, wash, framing, lines
Dimensions: Sheet: 19.9 x 49.2 cm (7 13/16 x 19 3/8 in.)
Inscribed: 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
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 1970.37
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Exhibitions: Year in Review: 1970, Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics, The Lessons of the Academy, Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection
Rights Statement: CC0