Studios of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) & Frans Snyders (1579–1657)

The Head of Medusa, circa 1617-18

Oil on canvas

29¼ x 44⅞ inches (74.5 x 114 cm.)

Sold

Provenance

With Christopher Gibbs Ltd., London, 1977

Sale, Christie’s, London, 14 December 1979, lot 128 (Studio of Rubens)

Sale, Christie’s, London, 26 February 1982, lot 8

Mr. and Mrs. William Llewelyn, Plas Teg, Pontblyddyn, Wales

Cornelia Bayley, Plas Teg, 1986

With Simon C. Dickinson, Ltd., London, 2017

Private collection, New York

Literature

The Burlington Magazine, no. 119, September 1977, p. LXXIII, ill.

J.G. van Gelder, “Das Rubens-Bild. Ein Rückblick”, in: Peter Paul Rubens, Werk und Nachruhm, Augsburg 1981, p. 38, n. 12

H. Robels, Frans Snyders: Stilleben und Tiermaler, Munich 1989, p. 371, no. 276b (under studio replicas and copies, together with the Brno (a) and Dresden (c) paintings

P.C. Sutton, The Age of Rubens, Boston 1993, p. 247, n. 16

G. Gruber, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Mythologies II, forthcoming publication

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