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Peter Paul RUBENS
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Germany (Westphalia) 1577 – Belgium (Flanders) 1640
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| also worked in Spain |
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Sketch for The triumphal entry of Henry IV into Paris, 22 May 1594
1628
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| oil on panel |
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21.8 (h) x 40.6 (w) cm
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framed 38.2 (h) x 57.8 (w) cm
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| not signed, not dated | | Purchased with the assistance of Mr James Fairfax and the Australian Belgian Community on the occasion of the Bicentenary 1988 |
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NGA 1988.376
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| 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
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