Flanders / after 1628
The Triumph of the Church
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs The Triumph of the Church as painting (Flanders · after 1628).
This work is likely a copy after Rubens’s oil sketch for the Triumph of the Eucharist tapestry series. Isabella, daughter of King Phillip II of Spain, commissioned the tapestries for a royal monastery in Madrid.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this painting as oil on wood and credits Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640).
The museum's collection notes: This work is likely a copy after Rubens’s oil sketch for the Triumph of the Eucharist tapestry series. Isabella, daughter of King Phillip II of Spain, commissioned the tapestries for a royal monastery in Madrid. The finished tapestries still hang there today, and the original oil sketch is in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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