Venus Disarming Mars, Drapery Study (verso)

Inscriptions

lower left, in brown ink: cette feuille dessinnée des deux costé [est?] de la main de Piet Paul R[ubens]

1949-1954: English Art Market Private Collection with Richard H. Zinser, New York 1970: Purchased by the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)
Date: c. 1632/35
Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash (right half); black chalk, with stumping (left half)
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.b

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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.