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Reconciliation of the Romans and the Sabines (recto) Venus Disarming Mars, Drapery Study (verso)
Inscriptions
ON AN OLD SUPPORT (now removed): in graphite: 200 x 489 mm ; in graphite: Rubens [JUS ?] ; stamped in red ink: ZOLL / I-26 / + [circled] (according to departmental cataloging sheet this is a Swiss customs stamp) ; ON AN OLD SUPPORT (now removed): embosed in red ink: P.P. Rubens ; ON OLD BACKING? (now removed): in blue ink: Versöhnung der Römer und Sabiner / auf der Rückseite: Venus entwaffnen Mars / ausst. von Rubens zeichnungen, / antwerpen, Rubenshaus sommer 1956 No 117 ; in graphite: Royal accademy, winter exhibition 1953/4
Provenance
1760: Gerard Hoet, sale, The Hague, 25-28 August 1760, lot 1109 ('De Ontmoeting der Romynen en Sabynen, bevredigd door de geroofde Vrouwen. Stout met de Pen en O.I. Ink...door Rubbens") 1949-1954: with H. M. Calmann, London. 1956: Elisabeth Drey, New York. 1970: with Richard H. Zinser. 1970: Purchased by the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982). The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983). Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)
- Date
- c. 1632/35
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19.9 x 49.2 cm (7 13/16 x 19 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Accession no.
- 1970.37
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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