The Capitoline Eagle
Sir Peter Paul Rubens · c. 1601/1602 · black chalk on laid paper
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About this picture
The Capitoline Eagle is a public-domain drawing by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, dated c. 1601/1602. Black chalk on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Capitoline Eagle” (c. 1601/1602) 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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