Coronation of the Virgin (Rubens)
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Painting by Peter Paul Rubens
Coronation of the Virgin is a 1609-1611 oil sketch by
Antwerp Cathedral but rejected in March 1611 and never realised as a full work, instead being reworked later for the same chapel as Assumption of the Virgin. It is now in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, for which it was acquired in 1722 from the F.I. Dufferin collection. It was transferred from a panel to a canvas support in 1868.[1]
The work combines motifs from the
Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin
until 1945, when it was destroyed.
References
- ISBN 83-7423-385-0.
- ^ D. Freedberg A Source for Rubens's Modello of the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin. A Case Study in the Response to Images The Burlington Magazine 1978 pages 432-441.
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