Decius Mus Addressing the Legions
Sir Peter Paul Rubens · probably 1616 · oil on hardboard, transferred from wood and canvas
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About this picture
Decius Mus Addressing the Legions is a public-domain painting by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, dated probably 1616. Oil on hardboard, transferred from wood and canvas. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Decius Mus Addressing the Legions” (probably 1616) comes out of Rubens’s Antwerp studio. The sketches are often his own hand. The large canvases were finished with assistants.
About the artist
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) ran a large Antwerp studio and painted altarpieces, hunts, portraits, and designs for tapestry. The sketches are often his own hand; the big canvases were finished with assistants.
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