print
- Museum number
- 1855,0609.505
- Title
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Object: L'Aventure de Philopoemen
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Series: Galerie du Palais Royal
- Description
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Philopoemen at right and chopping wood, being recognized by his hosts, an old couple; an open kitchen at left with a table loaded with vegetables, fruit and dead animals; a landscape in right background; lettered finished state; after Peter Paul Rubens. 1788
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1788
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 220 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After the painting by Rubens (perhaps in collaboration with Snyders), now lost (Rooses 800); a sketch of the painting can be found in the Musée du Louvre, while several museums (Madrid; Philadephia;...) keep copies of it.
From 'Galerie du Palais Royal', a set published between 1786 and 1808; see 1837,0408.317 for comment. For a state before letters see 1891,0414.1320.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0609.505