Lot No. 51


Nicolas Lauwers


Nicolas Lauwers - Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures

(Antwerp 1600-1652) The triumphal procession of Ecclesia (The triumph of the Eucharist over Ignorance and Blindness), after P. P. Rubens, engraving on laid paper, um 1647-1652, inscribed "Petr. Paul Rubbens pinxit / S. a Bolswert sculpsit / Nicolaus Lauwers excudit Antwerpiae." in the plate, 64,5 x 103,4 cm, with wide margins, a vertival central crease, Hollstein 195. III (Bolswert), mounted, framed, (Sch)

The triumphal procession of Ecclesia derives from a series comprising sixteen tapestries which Rubens designed for Archduchess Isabella for the Descalzas Reales monestary in Madrid in 1625. The Museo del Prado in Madrid keeps a preliminary study (Inv. Nr. P01698); a bozzetto is preserved in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Inv. Nr. 228).

See: Michael Jaffé, Rubens. Catalogo Completo, Mailand 1989, p. 820-822, Cat. No. 844.

Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546

astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at

30.03.2016 - 15:00

Realized price: **
EUR 1,000.-
Estimate:
EUR 800.- to EUR 1,000.-

Nicolas Lauwers


(Antwerp 1600-1652) The triumphal procession of Ecclesia (The triumph of the Eucharist over Ignorance and Blindness), after P. P. Rubens, engraving on laid paper, um 1647-1652, inscribed "Petr. Paul Rubbens pinxit / S. a Bolswert sculpsit / Nicolaus Lauwers excudit Antwerpiae." in the plate, 64,5 x 103,4 cm, with wide margins, a vertival central crease, Hollstein 195. III (Bolswert), mounted, framed, (Sch)

The triumphal procession of Ecclesia derives from a series comprising sixteen tapestries which Rubens designed for Archduchess Isabella for the Descalzas Reales monestary in Madrid in 1625. The Museo del Prado in Madrid keeps a preliminary study (Inv. Nr. P01698); a bozzetto is preserved in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Inv. Nr. 228).

See: Michael Jaffé, Rubens. Catalogo Completo, Mailand 1989, p. 820-822, Cat. No. 844.

Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546

astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 30.03.2016 - 15:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 23.03. - 30.03.2016


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