Saint Barbara fleeing from her Father, Peter Paul Rubens
circa 1620
oil on panel Oil
Height: 326 mm (12.83 in); Width: 462 mm (18.18 in)
Dulwich Picture Gallery Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q1241163
Accession number
125
Object history Peter Paul Rubens; Brussels, Joseph Sansot Sale, 20 Jul. 1739, lot 22 (ÔUn des plafonds des Jesuites ˆ Anvers, par Rubbens, reprŽsentant le Martyre de Ste Barbe'); The Hague, Anthoni and Stephanus de Groot sale, 20 Mar. 1771, lot 8. Bt Schuller; ?London, Christie's, Charles Joseph, graaf van Lichtervelde sale, 29 May 1801, lot 27 ('A Sketch for the Ceiling of the Jesuit's Church at Antwerp'). Bt Morris, for £3.3); London, Noel Desenfans, 1802-1807: London, Skinner and Dyke, Desenfans sale, 18 Mar. 1802, lot 126 ('RubensÐSt. Barbara led to the fatal Tower'. Descriptive Catalogue, no. 84: 'St. Barbara is in the centre of the picture, ascending the leads of the fatal tower in which she is to be sacrificed. She is dressed in blue and purple, and her light drapery and beautiful flaxen hair float in the wind. Her right arm is extended, and she holds in her left hand the palm of martyrdom, which in turning, she appears to shew in triumph to her executioner who is immediately following her. He is dressed in red and green, a turban on his head, armed with a drawn sword in one hand, and his other uplifted with violence and visible impatience to seize his victim'). Handwritten note in copy of catalogue at The Hague, RKD: '1412. [i.e. 14 x 12]'; Descriptive Catalogue no. 84). £6.12. Bt in; 1804 Insurance List, no. 123; London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1807-1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811; 1813 inv., no. 220.
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