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The Death of Eurydice

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Among Rubens’s many royal commissions was one from King Philip IV of Spain for the decorations for his hunting lodge near Madrid. It involved more than a hundred paintings, sixty of them after Rubens’s own designs. They were ordered in 1636 and completed in 1637. That was only possible because Rubens had a large workshop. But he made the sketches himself. Here are six of them.

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Title The Death of Eurydice
Material and technique Oil on panel
Object type
Painting > Painting > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Width Error: 15,5 is not a valid BCD value cm
Height 26 cm
Artists Painter: Peter Paul Rubens
Accession number St 30
Credits Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department Old Masters
Acquisition date 1940
Creation date in 1636
Collector Collector / Franz Koenigs
Internal exhibitions The Collection Enriched (2011)
External exhibitions Rubens. Painter of Sketches (2018)
Material
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Geographical origin Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe

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Peter Paul Rubens

Siegen 1577 - Antwerpen 1640

The Antwerp painter Peter Paul Rubens was appointed court artist to the Duke of Mantua in Italy at a young age. In 1603 he travelled to Madrid, where he was...

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