Virgin and Child (Rubens)
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Painting by Peter Paul Rubens
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Virgin and Child is a painting by
Rubens, commissioned in 1604 and completed between 1608 and 1621. It was seized by France in 1803 and is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts Tours
.
History
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It was commissioned by Anne Antheunis (1545-1621), widow of
ex voto
for their joint funeral monument, in the cathedral's masons' chapel. Then in Italy, Rubens only began the work on his return to Flanders in 1608, including a posthumous portrait of Alexandre-Jean and one of Anne from life. It was complete by 1621, the date of Anne's death.
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