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The Assumption of the Virgin
c. 1622–1625 · Oil on panel · Mauritshuis, The Hague
For the Assumption · 15 August
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image 13.4×20 in on a 16×20 in sheet
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All editionsAbout this painting
An angel holds a ring of flowers over Our Lady's head, and she does not look at it; her eyes are already higher. Below, apostles bend over the open grave. The Mauritshuis says the open and empty grave is there in this modello itself, brushed fast in rapid, casual strokes so the patron could comment early; the museum titles it an Ascension. The cathedral's account of the finished altarpiece in Antwerp has three young women and an elderly lady finding only the shroud, and Paul standing in for absent Thomas to keep the twelve; no Gospel, it notes, tells the Assumption. The dean, Johannes del Rio, paid for the altarpiece himself against a tomb promised him at the northern entrance to the sanctuary. He died in early 1624. Rubens began painting in the summer of 1625. One man paid for a tomb; Rubens painted one with nobody in it.
Sources: Mauritshuis official object page, inv. 926 · Finestre sull'Arte, 'Rubens in Flanders: the four great masterpieces in Antwerp Cathedral' · TOPA (Toerismepastoraal Antwerpen), Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, 'OLV Mary's Assumption (P.P. Rubens)'.