Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amidst a buzz of rumors, the Cleveland Museum of Art paid an estimated $550,000 in 1959 for Rubens' Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Chase. Last week Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty said he had gambled more than $400,000 that Cleveland has a fake. New Year...
Cleveland traces its Diana back to 1796, when Amsterdam Widow Elizabeth Hooft sold it. The painting was authenticated in 1959 by the late Dr. Ludwig Burchard. then the greatest living Rubens expert, who flatly discounted rumors that it was really the work of Rubens' assistant, Frans Snyders. Burchard. pointing...
Getty boasts an even longer pedigree for his Diana, tracing it to 1655 (Rubens died in 1640), when the Marquis de Leganés. Spanish Ambassador to Brussels and a friend of Rubens', listed the work in an inventory of his collection. Getty's Rubens expert, Columbia Professor...
Cleveland stood its ground. "We have no doubt our picture is genuine," said Museum Director Sherman Lee. "It is conceivable that Rubens painted two Dianas, but what the other one might be is somebody else's problem."
His embellished buildings, his shadowy ruins and his ornate details introduced a style of lavish grandeur that found its way to the noble homes of England and to the chãteaux of imperial France. Modern critics like to point out that the sliced-up spaces of his prisons are...