The Rape of the Sabine Women
c. 1770
Painter

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on paper on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 56.5 x 108.9 cm (22 1/4 x 42 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.79
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Leo Nardus [1868-1955], Suresnes, France, and New York); sold 1897 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1936
Sixty Paintings and Some Drawings by Peter Paul Rubens, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1936, no. 56, repro., as by Rubens.
Bibliography
1913
Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis, and Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Pictures in the collection of P. A. B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Early German, Dutch & Flemish Schools. Philadelphia, 1913: unpaginated, repro., as by Peter Paul Rubens.
1923
Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923: unpaginated, repro., as by Peter Paul Rubens.
1931
Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 216, repro., as by Peter Paul Rubens.
1946
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "Rubens Paintings in America; with list." The Art Quarterly 9, no. 2 (Spring 1946): 168.
1948
Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 78, repro., as by Peter Paul Rubens.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 118, as by Rubens.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 105, repro., as by Rubens.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 136, repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 25, repro.
2009
Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 52, 240-242, color repro.
Inscriptions
On stretcher: in chalk, "140".
Wikidata ID
Q20178526