The Conversion of Saint Paul

1640s

Abraham van Diepenbeeck after Peter Paul Rubens

Associated Names
Abraham van Diepenbeeck

Artist, Flemish, 1596 - 1675

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Artist, Flemish, 1577 - 1640

This is a painting of multiple people and horses in a tumultuous setting. There are armored men on horseback interacting with a man in the center who seems have fallen off a horse and on to the ground. The scene conveys movement and action, with contorted forms of both humans and animals. One horse rears into the air, while another leans forward with its back legs raised. At the top of the painting, a person with long hair emerges from the clouds. Rays of white light shine down from the opening in the clouds on to the people and horses.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and ink and oil paint over black chalk on brown paper, laid down on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 43.2 x 60.3 cm (17 x 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1999.25.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Duke or Earl of Northumberland. Private collection, England (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 9 April 1954, no. 114, as Rubens). (William Hallsborough Gallery), London. Mrs. Antenor Patiño (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1998, no. 272); (Noortman Gallery, London); purchased by NGA in 1999.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1984

  • Freedberg, David. Rubens: The Life of Christ after the Passion (Corpus Rubenianum Part VI). London, Oxford, and New York 1984: 123.

1999

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Abraham van Diepenbeeck after Peter Paul Rubens, The Conversion of Saint Paul" National Gallery of Art Bulletin 22 (1999): 17.

Wikidata ID

Q64533217

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