The Rape of the Sabine Women, c. 1770

Not on View

Medium

oil on paper on canvas

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.79

Artists / Makers

French 18th Century (painter)

Image Use

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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

Nardus, Leo
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

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.