print
- Museum number
- 1891,0414.898
- Title
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Object: Continence de Scipion
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Series: Galerie du Palais Royal
- Description
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The Abstinence of Scipio; scene on a colonnaded balcony with Scipio Africanus seated on a throne under a canopy at left, wearing a laurel crown and pointing at a woman who is standing at right and thus granting her permission to return to her fiancé rather than claiming her for himself, her fiancé kneeling before him and holding the woman's hand at centre, her family and ladies-in-waiting beyond, a lictor and a servant picking up a wine-vessel at left, two Roman soldiers in right background; after Peter Paul Rubens. c.1787/88
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1787-1788
- Dimensions
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Height: 168 millimetres
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Width: 217 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The lower part of the copper plate, which included a commentary on the scene, was cut off.
From 'Galerie du Palais Royal', see 1837,0408.317 for comment. For another impression of this plate see also 1855,0609.503.
After the painting by Rubens destroyed by fire in 1936 (Rooses 809); formerly in the collection of Christina of Sweden and of the Duc d'Orléans.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1891,0414.898
