The Adoration of the Magi

The Adoration of the Magi

1620-talet

Oil on canvas

Mått 255,00 x 213,00 cm

GKM 0968

Gift of Gustaf Werner, 1934

The famous Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) often received commissions for large, decorative works from Europe’s rulers as well as the Catholic Church. In the Museum’s collection is The Adoration of the Magi, which with its monumental composition and sumptuous colours is a typical example of his religious paintings. This major canvas was executed towards the end of the 1620s by Rubens and his assistants as an altarpiece for a now unknown church. Björn Fredlund from The Collection Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg 2014

Amsterdam (art trade?) The Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace Auction of the Blenheim Rubens collection 24 July 1886 in London. Bought by Lord Ardilaun, Dublin Koninklijke Kunstzaal Kleykamp, The Hague (probably acquired in the 1920s) Purchased from Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, and presented in 1934 by Gustaf Werner, Gothenburg

Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Björn Fredlund, Anna Hyltze, Philippa Nanfeldt, Isabella Nilsson, Johan Sjöström, Samlingen Göteborgs konstmuseum, red. Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Anna Hyltze, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborg 2014., p. 43-44, 60, ill. p. 61