Gideon Overcoming the Midianites
ArtistWorkshop of
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish, b. 1577, Siegen Westphalia; d. 1640, Antwerp
Datecirca 1625–1630
MediumOil on cradled panel
Dimensions23 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. (59.7 x 72.4 cm)
Frame: 35 1/4 x 40 5/8 in. (89.5 x 103.2 cm)
Frame: 35 1/4 x 40 5/8 in. (89.5 x 103.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.207
On View
On view[1] Lot description: Een schets, zijnde de Battaille van Josua tegens de Philisteinen, op panel, door P. P. Rubens, hoog 23, breet 28 duimen (A sketch, being the battle of Joshua against the Philistines, on panel, by P. P. Rubens, height 23, width 28 inches).
[2] Painting was given a 1952 accession number but was purchased in 1954.
Published ReferencesJohn Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, Vol. 2 (London: Smith and Son, 1830), cat. no. 607 (as Joshua Overcoming the Amalekites).
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 134, illus. (b-w).
Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), 58 (advertisement illus.).
May Davis Hill, "Representations from the Old Testament in the Museum's Collection of Paintings," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 2 (Summer 1957), discussed 13-14, illus. (b-w) 13.
C[harles] W. Stanford, North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 3, no. 9 (June 1960), illus. (b-w) unnumbered page (as picture of the month).
Charles W. Stanford, Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 17, illus. (b-w).
Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 44, illus. (b-w) 45.
Julius S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: A Critical Catalogue, Vol. 1 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), cat. no. A20, pl. 488.
Dalya Alberge, "My, what a fabulous Rubens. Is it real?" London: The Times (April 1, 2006), illus. (color) 29.
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 64, illus. (color) 308.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection,” October, 1970, 44, illus. (b-w) 45.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery.,“Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt,” October 24, 1986-February 15, 1987. (not part of exhib. but on view in conjunction with it).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Miracle on Morgan Street: The Foundations of the NCMA, 1946–1960,” September 16, 2020–April 11, 2021.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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