Peter Paul RUBENS
Germany (Westphalia) 1577 – Belgium (Flanders) 1640
- Movements: also worked in Spain
Sketch for The triumphal entry of Henry IV into Paris, 22 May 1594
1628 Painting, oil on panel
Primary Insc: No inscriptions
Tertiary Insc: verso: c., ink "Rubens"; l.c. to l.r., oil[?] "ROMA Palzzo [sic] Odescalchi Prati"; c., chalk "LOT 101 8-1-87"; u.r. oil[?] "185"
21.8 h x 40.6 w cm
framed 38.2 h x 57.8 w cm
Purchased with the assistance of Mr James Fairfax and the Australian Belgian Community on the occasion of the Bicentenary 1988
Accession No: NGA 88.376
Provenance:
- bought by a private collector, Vienna, c.1900;
- by descent to a private collector, New York;
- who offered the work at auction, Sotheby's London, 8 July 1987, lot 101;
- Kurt Allen Brod, White Plains NY;
- from whom bought through Sotheby's London by the Australian National Gallery, February 1988
