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CIRCLE OF SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS | EMPEROR COMMODUS AS HERCULES, BUST-LENGTH, WEARING A LAUREL CROWN AND LION SKIN, HOLDING A CLUB, IN A PAINTED OVAL

Auction Closed

January 30, 06:45 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

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CIRCLE OF SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS

EMPEROR COMMODUS AS HERCULES, BUST-LENGTH, WEARING A LAUREL CROWN AND LION SKIN, HOLDING A CLUB, IN A PAINTED OVAL

inscribed across bottom: .COMMODVS. XVIII.

oil on panel, unframed

26 by 19½in.; 66 by 49.5 cm

Please note that this lot is sold unframed.

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 12 June 1981, lot 222-226 (as Circle of Marten de Vos).

K. Jonkcheere, Rubens. Portraits After Existing Prototypes, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIX, vol. 4, London 2016, p. 104, under cat. no. 38, reproduced fig. 152 (as whereabouts unknown).

See note for previous lot.