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Sacred conversation with Saint Bonaventure, Saint Jerome and the Virgin and Child
(c. 1685-1725)
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
- Gallery location
- Not on display
About this work
This work is based on a painting by Peter Paul Rubens that was first adapted for the print medium by Paulus Pontius around 1640–58. Located in his own tomb chapel at St Jacob’s Church in Antwerp, Rubens’ painting depicts the Virgin and Child flanked by saints. St Jerome is seated on a lion in the foreground, while St Bonaventure kneels to the left and St George – bearing Rubens’ likeness – waves a flag to the right. In this later engraving by an unknown artist, Rubens’ composition has been reversed and St George, along with several other ancillary details, has been omitted.
Artwork Details
printed in ink l.l. O nunc diva tuum fistas miri virgo puellum / As iucunda sinus interiora met.
printed in ink l.r.: Oscula dem manibus nati, quem totus (illeg.) / Cernere: quoque frui est gloria, vita salus.
printed in pencil l.l.-l.r.: Reverendo admodumamplissimoque Domino D. REMIGIO DE CORPELZ, monasterii bonneffiensis, sari ordinis Cisterciensis, in comitatu Namurcensi Abbati metitissimo Hanc Diui / Bernadi ad pedes Iesu prostrati cum humili manuum osculo inter sanctos in coelis conversationem in observantiae Sismbolum DD.C. Gaspar Huberti.
printed in ink l.r.: Pet. Pauls Rubens pinxit / Gaspar Huberti excudit. Antwerpiae.
Felton Bequest, 1926
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