Flemish school circa 1630, entourage of Peter Paul Rubens
The Martyrdom of Saint Liévin
Paper mounted on canvas
Height: 69 cm
Width: 53.5 cm
Number lower right "5112" and lower left "3555" Wax stamps on verso, and inscription on reverse of
frame "This painting by Rubens comes from the Gallery / of the Count of Altamira of Madrid" Inscriptions "Collection
of the Count of Altamira Paris" Recent inscription in pencil "m. Vullig"
Provenance: The Cloister Art Guild, St Mary's, Detroit (with an error in dimensions 90 x 70 cm), in 1973.
Bibliography: H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part VIII Saints II, Belgium, 1973, cited p. 110
under no. 127, copy (2).
This painting is listed on the RKD database, image no. 1001193640 (Flemish School circa 1635
after Rubens) with an error in dimensions (90 x 70 cm). Taken from the painting in the Musées Royaux des Beaux
Arts de Belgique.
