Flemish school of the 18th century, after Peter... Lot 149

Flemish school of the 18th century, after Peter Paul RUBENS The Crucifixion Oil on canvas, lined 59.5 x 41 cm (restorations) The painting is related to two large-format works by Rubens depicting the same subject, the Christ on the Cross in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (inv. no. 313), and the Christ on the Cross in the Stedelijke Museum, Mechelen (inv. no. S0016). With a few variations, the artist who painted the Crucifixion presented here certainly saw the engraving executed by Schelte Adams Bolswert between the second half of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century (British Museum, inv. no. 0414.637). As in the print, there is a mountainous landscape and the city of Jerusalem in the background.