The Assumption of the Virgin
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
The Assumption of the Virgin
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
around 1635/37
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- Material/technique
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 501 × 351 cm
- Acquisition
- Acquired before 1643 by Prince Karl Eusebius I von Liechtenstein
- Currently exhibited
- Garden Palace, permanent presentation
- Artists/makers/authors
- Sir Peter Paul Rubens
- Inventory number
- GE 80
- Provenance
- between 1629 and 1639 commissioned by Charles and Johannes Angelus de Schotte for the high altar of the Carthusian Church in Brussels, before 1643 probably in the Carthusian Church in Brussels; acquired in 1643 by Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein, since 1671 altarpiece in the parish church of Feldsberg, in 1764 transferred to the Liechtenstein Gallery in the Majoratspalais Liechtenstein in Bankgasse in Vienna, 1815 to 1945 in the Gallery in the Garden Palace in Vienna
- Place of origin
- Antwerp
- Iconography
- Assumption of Mary
