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Triumphant Entry of Constantine into Rome

about 1621

2001.237

On display in C204

oil paintpanelswoodoakpainting

Artwork Details

Artist
Creation Date
about 1621
Materials
oil on oak panel
Object Types
paintings, oil paintings
Dimensions

19-3/16 x 25-1/2 in. (panel) 28-1/2 x 34 x 3-1/4 in. (framed microclimate chamber, Optium)

Accession Number
2001.237
Credit Line

The Clowes Collection

Copyright
Public Domain
Collection

European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800

Color Palette

Marc Comans [1563-1644] and François de la Planche, formerly known by his Flemish name Frans van der Plancken, [1573-1627], owners of the Faubourg Saint-Marcel manufactory in Paris, France;{1} Probably owned by the Comans family until about 1640-1660.{2} Possibly in the collection of Henri de Valois [1603-1676] or his brother, Adrien de Valois [1607-1692], Paris, until 1676 or 1692.{3} Philippe II d’Orléans [1674-1723] by 1723;{4} by descent to Louis-Philippe-Joseph d’Orléans [1747-1793], Paris, until 1792;{5} Thomas Moore Slade in association with George, 7th Lord Kinnaird [1754-1805], William Morland [1739-1815] and Thomas Hammersley [1747-1812].{6} Robert Banks Jenkinson, Second Earl of Liverpool [1770-1828], by 1815; Sale at (Christie’s, London, England) of Jenkinson’s estate in 1829;{7} John Smith [active 1825-1849], London;{8} George John, 5th Baron Vernon [1803-1866];{9} Thomas Emmerson [died 1855]; Sale at (Phillips Son & Neal, London) in 1832;{10} “Marshall”; {11} (Thomas Griffith, Norwood) in 1881;{12} Georges Bottolier-Lasquin [died 1932], Paris, by 1887;{13} To his brother, Henri Lasquin [died 1919], Paris, by 1913.{14} Possibly (Galerie Van Diemen & Company, New York, New York, by 1931.{15} (Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York), by 1956;{16} George Henry Alexander. Clowes [1877-1958], Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1956; Clowes Fund Collection, Indianapolis, since 1958; on long-term loan to the Indianapolis Museum of Art since 1971 (C10069); Given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 2001 (2001.237). ------- {1} It was presumably included in the 03 August – 01 September 1627 probate inventory of the Comans-De la Planche workshop taken upon the death of the latter in 1627: “Item douze petitz desseigns peintz en huille sur des planches de bois, de la main de Pierre Paul Rubens, représentant l’Histoire de Constantin, prisé à raison de 100# pièce 1,200#, ” as transcribed in Koenraad Brosens, Rubens: Subjects from History, volume 3, The Constantine Series, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, part 13, ed. Arnout Balis, London 2011, p. 366, from the above cited inventory in the Archives nationales, Paris. {2} On the vagaries of the Comans-De la Planche workshop between 1627 and 1633, including its dissolution and the resulting division of shared property, see Brosens 2011, pp. 98-100. {3} The Valois seal appears on the verso of The Milvian Bridge and The Death of Constantine, leading Brosens to speculate that more of the oil sketches may have been in this collection, see Brosens 2011, p. 45, 102. Brosens nevertheless believes quite firmly that the twelve sketches were dispersed after 1627, see Brosens 2011, p. 108. {4} Twelve oil sketches are listed in the posthumous inventory of Phillipe II d’Orléans in 1724 : “Item douze tableaux quarrés peints sur bois representant l’histoir de Constantin dans leurs bordures en bois sculptés doré numerotté 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Prisés ensemble de la somme de deux mille quatre cent livres.’ See Brosens 2011, p. 370. {5} An inventory of the paintings in the collection of the duc d’Orléans was recorded in March 1792 by Jean-Baptiste –Pierre Lebrun for Thomas Moore Slade. It lists “Pierre Paul Rubens, 2 esquisses de l’histoire de Constantin 15,000, and is transcribed in Brosens 2011, p. 375. Brosens also mentions inventories of 1752 and 1785 of Louis d’Orléans [1703-1752] and Louis-Philippe d’Orléans [1725-1785] respectively. {6} Brosens notes that this and other oil sketches from the Constantine series were offered for sale at Slade’s gallery in Chatham, Kent, in 1792-93, and then again in London, at 125 Pall Mall in 1793. In the latter this oil sketch was no. 58. {7} Christie’s London, Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures, 25 May 1829, lot no. 63. {8} According to an annotated copy of the above cited auction catalogue at the Getty Research Institute. {9} According to the ledger of John Smith at the Provenance Index Database of the Getty Research Institute. {10} Phillips Son & Neal, London, Splendid and Highly estimable collection of pictures, lot no. 70. {11} According to the Provenance Index Database of the Getty Research Institute. {12} According to George Redford, Art sales: A History of sales of pictures and other works of art, London 1888 (although this may refer to a copy of the oil sketch), vol. II, p. 323. {13} Georges Bottolier-Lasquin, sometimes identified as Georges B.-Lasquin, was a collector and “expert en art” for auction sales. He is listed as the owner of the oil sketch in the catalogue, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Exposition [de tableaux de maîtres anciens] au profit des inondés du midi, 1887, p. 41, no 139. {14} H. Lasquin’s ownership is given in Casimir Stryienski, La Galerie du regent, Philippe, duc d’Orléans, Paris, 1913, p. 188, no. 478. See also American Art News, ”Death of ‘Expert’ Lasquin,” 1 February 1919, p. 5 for brief biography of Lasquin. {15} See Katharine Grant Sterne, “Some Old Masters in New York Galleries,” Parnassus (February 1931), p. 10 which mentions an oil sketch from the life of Constantine with “pink and yellow draperies swirling gaily against a grey sky.” For the painting’s location in the 1920s, the RKD, The Hague, suggests that it was included in a 1924 auction; this is in error, since the auction catalogue clearly indicates that no. 36 was a copy on canvas of the original, which is painted on oak panel. See Koninklijke Kunstzaal Kleykamp, The Hague, Vente collection importante tableaux et sculptures des XVe, XVIe, XVIIe siècles, appartenant à un amateur, 10 June 1924, 8 (introduction by C. Hofstede de Groot), lot no. 36 (reproduced). {16} Bill of sale, 6 February 1956, Newhouse Correspondence, Clowes Registration Archive, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.



Exhibition Name

Venue

Dates

CAST FOR ETERNITY: The bronzes of the Princes of Liechtenstein

Liechtensein Museum

March 1, 2023 - March 31, 2023

Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Chengdu Museum

September 29, 2020 - January 4, 2021

Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Hunan Provincial Museum

May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020

Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Guandong Museum

January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020

Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens

Cincinnati Art Museum

June 14, 2005 - September 11, 2005

Constantine The Great: The Tapestries / The Designs

Philadelphia Museum of Art

October 1, 1964 - November 1, 1964

Northern European Painting, The Clowes Fund Collection

Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

March 18, 1963 - April 10, 1963

A Lenten Exhibition

Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame

March 11, 1962 - April 8, 1962

Paintings from the Collection of George Henry Alexander Clowes

John Herron Art Institute and Museum

October 3, 1959 - November 1, 1959

gallery display

British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom

1815 - 1815


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