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Follow the crowd from the rearing horse at left, past the women with raised arms in the middle, to the helmeted soldiers with round shields at right.
This long, narrow sheet in pen and wash shows the end of a legend of early Rome, when the Romans, who had carried off the Sabine women, made peace with the Sabines. In the second half of the 1630s Rubens also painted the start of the story, The Rape of the Sabine Women, now in the National Gallery, London. On the back of this sheet he drew Venus disarming Mars and a study of drapery.
pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash; framing lines in brown ink · Sheet: 19.9 x 49.2 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Baroque
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- Museum title
- Reconciliation of the Romans and the Sabines (recto)
- Artist
- Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)
- Date
- c. 1632/35
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19.9 x 49.2 cm (7 13/16 x 19 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.