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Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) (99)
Period: 17th century (3591)
Type: oil paint (473)
Keywords
allegorical paintings (7) | allegory (1258) | avarice (5) | cornucopias (58) | history paintings (41) | kings (people) (519) | personification (910) | victories (44)
Image sets with this image:
en exposicion 2
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Bounty of James I triumphing over Avarice
1632-33
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Oil on panel
Height: 60.6 cm ( frame ); Depth: 4.5 cm ( frame ); Width: 45.2 cm ( frame ); Width: 30.8 cm ( panel ); Height: 46.2 cm ( panel );
Acquisition (source, method, date)
Seilern, Antoine (Count); bequest; 1978
P.1978.PG.377
About this work
This is a sketch for one of nine canvasses Rubens painted for the ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace in London. A female nude representing bounty empties a cornucopia loaded with fruit, coins, and the royal sceptre and crown. Charles I commissioned this allegory to celebrate the liberality and prosperity of his father James, and the whole Stuart dynasty. Ironically, the ceiling was the last work of art Charles I saw as he stepped onto the executioner’s scaffold from the Banqueting House in 1649.
(Permanent collection label)
Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
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