Music-Making Angels
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
This was never a picture. It was tooling: two sketches for cartoons Brussels weavers copied for Isabella Clara Eugenia's twenty-tapestry Triumph of the Eucharist, bound for the Descalzas Reales.
The Art Institute of Chicago reads another sketch for the series as celebrants heavenly and earthly, adoring the Eucharist; Alexandra Libby finds angel musicians among its smaller hangings. The boards were joined and overpainted into one picture; the seam still runs through the middle.
The tapestries are there still. They hung for Good Friday and Corpus Christi, nothing else. The tool has hung in a Prussian king's gallery since 1763.
Sources: SPSG collection record via museum-digital, accession GK I 7745 · Alexandra Libby, JHNA 7, no. 2 (2015) · "Peter Rubens' Triumph der Eucharistie," Dominus Vobiscum 23 · The Art Institute of Chicago, The Adoration of the Eucharist (Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1626), collection record · Museo Nacional del Prado, exhibition Rubens. The Triumph of the Eucharist · Alexandra Billington Libby, "Piety, Politics, and Patronage: Isabel Clara Eugenia and Peter Paul Rubens's The Triumph of the Eucharist Tapestry Series" (diss., University of Maryland, 2013)
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 10,249 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.