The Madonna and Child
studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas (transferred from panel)
Measurements
965 x 749 mm (38 x 29 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 1535114
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (transferred from panel), The Madonna and Child, studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Seigen 1577 - Antwerp 1640). The Virgin in red dress with white sleeves and blue scarf, seated to left, is supporting the Infant Saviuor who stands naked on her lap, one hand on her breast, the other ruined her neck.
Provenance
Richard Hart Davis MP (1766 - 1842) sale, Coxe, 1st June,1814, lot 32; bought in; Sir Mark Sykes (1771-1823); Richard M. Foster by 1854, Clewer Manor, Windsor, Berkshire; his son, Edmund Benson Foster (1830 - d. 1862), until the sale, collection of the late Richard Foster, Christie's, London, June 3, 1876, lot 15; bought by Samuels for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild; his brother-in-law Leopold de Rothschild; Anthony de Rothschild (1887- 1961), by whom kept at Ascott, and given with the house and grounds to the National Trust in 1949
Credit line
Ascott, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), artist Willem Paneels (fl. Antwerp 1600 - after 1632), artist
References
Ascott, Buckinghamshire, Scala, 2008 by John Martin Robinson and others [pictures entries by Karin Wolfe on basis of Gore entries, 1963 with contributions from Alastair Laing] , no. 72 Smith 1829-42 John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, 8 vols and supplement, London, 1829-42, II, no. 794 Waagen 1854-7: Gustav Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 3 vols. (translated by Lady Eastlake) with a supplementary volume: Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854-7, II, p. 451 Rooses 1892 Max Rooses, L'Oeuvre de P. P. Rubens, Antwerp, 1886 & 1892 , I, p. 257, no. 191; V, p. 319