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The Bounty of James I triumphing over Avarice

Maker

(Artists)
1577-1640

Title

The Bounty of James I triumphing over Avarice

Date of Production

1632-33

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

Height: 46.2 cm (panel)
Width: 30.8 cm (panel)

Accession Number

P.1978.PG.377

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

Keywords






Avarice


Label Text

Peter Paul Rubens received commissions from rulers all over Europe. This sketch relates to one from King Charles I for the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace, London. The final nine ceiling canvasses are still in place today. Here, a woman holds a horn of plenty filled with fruit and coins, celebrating the generosity of Charles’s father, James I, and the prosperity of the Stuart dynasty.

Provenance

Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Rubens and Britain, Tate Britain, London, 21/11/2011-06/05/2012

Rubens in England - The Whitehall Ceiling Multiple Panel, Tate Britain, London, 15/03/2008-15/06/2008

Peter Paul Rubens - A Touch of Brilliance, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/09/2003-08/02/2004 ...More

to be displayed with permanent collection, London & England, 25/09/1997-15/09/1998 ...Less

Literature

Peter Paul Rubens - A Touch of Brilliance, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2003-2004
cat. no. 33
Fig. p. pl. 33

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