Warrior, between 1614 and 1616

  • Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640

Oil on oak panel

  • Unframed: 17 1/2 × 11 9/16 inches (44.5 × 29.4 cm)
  • 26 × 20 1/16 × 3 1/8 inches (66 × 50.9 × 7.9 cm)

Gift of Julius Weitzner

79.15

On View

  • European: Rubens, Level 2, South

Department

European Painting

Sir Alexander Korda (London, England)

June 15, 1956, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 101 [as the Duke of Alva] [for 180 guineas]

purchased by (Jan Appleby and David Koetser, London, England)

1978-1979, (Julius H. Weitzner, London, England)

1979-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hofstede, J.M. "Rubens and Tizian: as Bild Karls V." Munchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, 1967, vol. 18, p. 64 (fig. 35); p. 70; p. 93, no. 152. Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century, The Collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 84-85, pl VIII. Jaffé, M. Rubens: catalogo completo. Milan, 1989, p. 187, no. 207 (ill.). [ca. 1613.]

Peter Paul Rubens, Warrior, between 1614 and 1616, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Julius Weitzner, 79.15.