Follower of Theodoor Rombouts

The present work is a copy with variations after the large painting by Rombouts in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (180 by 230 cm.; inv. no. 2014.2). Other repetitions of the composition, with some differences, have been sold in The Hague, Van Marle & Bignell, 25 January 1943, lot 63, and New York, Sotheby's, 3 September 2003, lot 35 (incorrectly titled as 'The Continence of Scipio'), both attributed to Rombouts. Other versions were sold in London, Sotheby's, 25 March 1970, lot 86, and Amsterdam, Christie's, 18 November 1993, lot 61, which cite Rubens' painting of the same subject in the Institute of Arts, Detroit (inv. no. 89.63), as their source, but the compositions do not correspond.