BIB_ID
127903
Accession number
MA 386.1
Display Date
1622 Feb. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 34.1 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of documents relating to Peter Paul Rubens and Marie de Médicis. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Signed at the Louvre by Peter Paul Rubens (three signatures), Marie de Médicis and her secretary, Claude Bouthillier, with two additional unidentified signatures.
Written in secretary hand.
Signed at the Louvre by Peter Paul Rubens (three signatures), Marie de Médicis and her secretary, Claude Bouthillier, with two additional unidentified signatures.
Written in secretary hand.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Letter "B" inside crowned shield over word CHLEBES?
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Contract specifying the terms of the commission of 24 tableaux, to be entirely in the hand of Rubens, for the decoration of two galleries in the Luxembourg Palace.
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