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Battle of the Amazons

Battle of the Amazons

Object type Painting
Genre Classical History
Date ca. 1598
Dimensions 102 x 120 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Collaborators Peter Paul Rubens
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #550, Expertise by J. Müller Hofstede in 1986, 1988 , Expertise by Klaus Ertz
Location/Most Recent Sale Roderick LaShelle Collection
Tags Battle, Death, Horse, Rubens, Nude, Soldiers, Classical, Landscape
van den Branden, 1883
Denucé, 1932
Hofstede, 1957
Hofstede, 1962
Jaffé, 1967, pp. 98
Baudouin, 1968
Vlieghe, 1977, pp. 134
Held, 1982, pp. 22
Held, 1983
Eckhardt, 1986
White, 1987, pp. 24, il. 38
Bodart 1990, pp. 10
Padua/Rome/Milan 1990, cat. #1
Essen 1997, cat. #68, 238-242
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #550, pp. 1193-94, 1196
McGrath et al. 2016, Vol. XI
Cologne 1977, p. 181, cat. 24, il. K24, 1
Padova 1990, Palazzo della Ragione
Rome 1990, Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Milano 1990, Societa per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanenete
Essen 1997, Kulturstiftung Ruhr Essen, Villa Hügel
Vienna 1997-8, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Antwerp 1998, KMSKA- The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Cremona 1998, Museo Civico Ala Ponzone
Antwerp 2014, Rubenianium
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17th century Genoa Genoese noble collection
ca. 1920 Antwerp Purchased by Bernard Verrijken
ca. 1960 Antwerp Inherited from Bernard Verrijken by grandson Emile Verrijken, Esq.
1993 Roderick LaShelle Collection
E.A. Honig
June 12, 2012

Ertz has argued that not only the landscape but also the horses in the battle might be by Jan. Even though Jan was more engaged with battle painting at a moment shortly after this, the horses don't look like his type, and in terms of technical execution it would hardly be possible.