The Assumption of the Virgin

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)

1636–38

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

unframed: 22 1/16 × 15 15/16 in. (56 × 40.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift in memory of Elizabeth Manning Sage

Accession Number

1965.35

Culture

Flemish

Period

17th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Ph. Panné Collection; London sale, Christie's, 26-28 March 1819 (2nd Day Sale, 27th March), lot 109; Peter Ranier, Esq. Collection; Walter Lippincott Goodwin Collection, Hartford, Connecticut; Henry Sage Goodwin Collection, Avon, Connecticut, by descent.
Bibliography
  • Andrew Carnduff Ritchie and Katherine Neilson, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), no. 24
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Subject

Mary

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