(Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp)
The Triumph of the Eucharist over Blindness and Ignorance,
oil on panel, 50 x 70 cm, framed

Provenance:
F. Kleinberger, Paris;
sale Lempertz, Cologne, 10 May 1916, lot 86 A.–B.;
sale Antik Kompaniet, Stockholm, 1917-1918, lot 98 (as by Rubens);
sale Christie’s, London, 8 July 1927, lot 87, where purchased by Pearson Ernst Elliot, Stockholm;
Dr. H.-B. Hultzoren, Rasunda, before 1929;
Mrs. Fasth, Syndbyberg, 1951;
Stig, Oseen, Stockholm, 1954;
Rogers, Stockholm, 1970;
since 2006 in the collection of the present owner

Exhibited:
Museum, Malmö, Unställning av en samling äldre målninger, 1920, no. 46 (illustrated)

Literature:
V. H. Elbern, Peter Paul Rubens: Triumph der Eucharistie: Wandteppische aus dem Kölner Dom: Villa Hügel, Ausstellung Schätze aus Dom und Münster, 1955, p. 85;
N. De Poorter, Corpus Rubenianium, Ludwig Burchard, part II, vol. I, pp. 327-328 under no. 11b, number 3, as a copy.
J.S. Held, The oil sketches of Peter Paul Rubens, vol. I, p. 156, no. 2 (as a copy)

The present work is a version after the prototype by Peter Paul Rubens in the Prado, Madrid. The work in the Prado is a modello that Rubens made as part of the commission for a cycle celebrating the Triumph of the Eucharist that was ordered by the Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, Regentess of the Netherlands in c. 1625. This cycle by Rubens was ultimately used as a design for tapestries that were to decorate the Church of Saint Francis adjacent to the Descalzas Reales in Madrid.