Circle of Peter Paul Rubens

John Warne Gates (d. 1911), St. Charles, IL, and by bequest to his wife, bequeathed to his wife, Dellora R. Baker Gates (d. 1918);
Thence by inheritance to her niece, Dellora Frances Angell (later Norris);
By whom given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

The present composition follows Rubens's monumental canvas painted in Flanders circa 1617-20 and destined for the Torre de la Reina in the Royal Alcázar of Madrid (originally a fortress and later the Royal Palace of Madrid). Many of the artworks originally in the palace were destroyed in a fire in 1734, but Rubens's painting is today in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.¹

^{1. Oil on canvas, 72.4 by 78.3 in. inv. P001727}