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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Decius Mus Addressing the Legions
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish, 1577 - 1640
Decius Mus Addressing the Legions, probably 1616
oil on hardboard, transferred from wood and canvas
Overall: 80.7 x 84.7 cm (31 3/4 x 33 3/8 in.) framed: 105.1 x 109.2 x 12.7 cm (41 3/8 x 43 x 5 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1957.14.2
From the Tour: Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Object 5 of 8
1921Klassiker der Kunst V (1921): 460.
1956Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 152-155, no. 59, repro.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 292, repro.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 147, color repro. pl. 138
1962Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 78, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 310, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 118
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:266, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 105, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 314, repro.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 104-106, fig. 101.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 252, no. 320, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 360, repro.
2005Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2005: 175-182, color repro.

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