Pierre Paul Rubens, 1614 - The Rape of Proserpina - fine art print

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To please Venus, Love shoots an arrow into the heart of Pluto. Madly in love with the young Proserpine, the god of the Underworld then snatches her picking flowers and leads in habite.L'histoire that darkness of Pluto and Proserpina is told in the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid and repeated by Claudian, in the fifth century. This is the story of the latter that was particularly inspired when Rubens was commissioned a large painting depicting the abduction of the young goddess in 1614-1615. This was the first opportunity for the artist to treat the subject. The sketch, which only demonstrates what the finished picture was destroyed in a fire in 1861, translated all the fire of Pluto and the violence of the kidnapping. The galloping horses, the young woman who spills her basket of flowers in the fall and the body thrown from Proserpine insist, not without moralizing referred, the fragility of women.The treatment of "The Rape of Proserpina" proceeds from the nervous and quick key feature of the Rubens painting in his return from Rome. The lines are dynamic and moving bodies. When Philip IV of Spain commissioned him again about it in 1636, Rubens 1614-1615 reuses the composition, but the back and tightens the frame in Figures (PP Rubens, "The Rape of Proserpina ', Madrid, Prado Museum ), giving the illusion that Pluto could be stopped, when all hope is lost in the sketch Petit painted Palais.L'esquisse took an important place in the process of creating the master. It allowed the sponsor to validate its composition projects. Perceived as the raw expression of artistic inspiration, these "models-sketches" rained early collectors, which helped to preserve some.

Towards 1614, Rubens was commissioned a painting of the Rape of Proserpine goddess. The painting of the Petit Palais is the sketch and the only witness to what was the work completed, since it was in the collection of the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim Castle which caught fire in 1861. "The 'Rape of Proserpine "went through several public sales: the sale Trouard in Paris February 22, 1779, cat. No. 94 (sold 600 pounds); Sale Lebrun, Paris, April 11, 1791, cat. No. 72 (sold 770 books Castelmore); Sale Castelmore in Paris December 20, 1791, cat. # 45. During this last sale, Alexandre Payet Joseph bought the sketch on behalf of President Henrietta, for $ 840 livres.En 1800, the table was still in the Haudry collection and was sold on August 4 in Orleans by Henry merchant, Cardinal Joseph Fesch. It was presented in the "Camera di Rubens" in Falconieri Palace in Rome. After the death of the cardinal, his collections were inventoried and sold. "The Rape of Proserpina" was the inv number. No. 3330 and went on sale in Rome on 17 and 18 March 1845 (Cat. No. 200-161). At an unknown date, the sketch joined the collection of Professor Schrakner in Strasbourg. Then one of the brothers Dutuit in Rouen. In 1902, she entered the collections of the City of Paris, thanks to the legacy of Augustus Dutuit.

Proserpina (Roman mythology); Persephone (Greek mythology); Pluto (Roman mythology); Hades (Greek Mythology); Minerva (Roman mythology); Athena (Greek mythology)

mythological scene, Kidnapping = kidnapping, Ancient Chariot, Horse, Nude, Female, Male, Shield, Helmet, Greco-Roman Mythology

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This 17th century masterpiece was made by Pierre Paul Rubens in the year 1614. The version of the masterpiece had the following size Height: 38 cm, Width: 67 cm and was produced with the techinque Oil painting. It is included in the digital art collection of Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris located in Paris, France. We are happy to reference that the artwork, which belongs to the public domain is provided with courtesy of Petit Palais Paris.: . What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has a ratio of 16 : 9, which means that the length is 78% longer than the width.

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