The Rape of the Sabine Women

c. 1770

French 18th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on paper on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 56.5 x 108.9 cm (22 1/4 x 42 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    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

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