The Assumption of the Virgin
The Assumption of the Virgin
- Artist
- Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
- Artist Dates
- 1577-1640
- Artist Nationality
- Flemish
- Title
- The Assumption of the Virgin
- Date
- probably mid 1620s
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- image only, without wooden shims: 123.5 x 92 cm 48 5/8 x 36 1/4 in
- K Number
- K1871
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.9.32
- Notes
Provenance
R.P. [possibly Robert P.] Nichols, London, by 1857. [1] Misses Weiss, Langton Castle, Worcestershire, by 1950. [2] (Frederick Mont, Inc., New York); sold January 1952 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [3] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] Gustav-Friedrich Waagen, _Galleries and cabinets of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of more than Forty Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Mss., &c.&c_, forming a supplemental volume to the Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 3 vols., London, 1857: 240. [2] _A Loan Exhibition of Works by Peter Paul Rubens, Kt._, notes by Ludwig Burchard, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co., London, 1950: 2. [3] The bill of sale from Frederick Mont to the Kress Foundation is dated 30 January 1952 (copy in NGA curatorial files). The painting is described as being a modello for the altarpiece in the Cathedral of Antwerp, from the collection of Langton Castle, Worcestershire, England.