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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
1613–1615 · oil on panel · KMSKA, Antwerp
For Saint Thomas · 3 July
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Two hands come forward, open, and three men lean in to read them. Christ stands bare to the waist in a red cloak; the eldest apostle bows over the palm, the young one bends beside him, the dark-bearded one looks to His face. There is no wound in the side, and on that absence both KMSKA and Kendra Grimmett doubt the old title: the museum suggests Rubens may have had in mind Christ's first appearance to the apostles, without Thomas. Grimmett notes the flushed cheeks, the flexing tendons, the blue veins; the risen body has blood in it. Nicolaas Rockox, burgomaster of Antwerp and Rubens's friend, commissioned the epitaph with his wife Adriana Perez for their tomb in the Recollects church, between wings bearing their portraits. French troops took it to the Louvre in 1794; it came home in 1815. The palms are still held out.
Sources: KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp), 'The Incredulity of Thomas?', object article on the Rockox epitaph; artist given as Peter Paul Rubens with no qualifier. · Kendra Grimmett, 'The Body of Christ and the Embodied Viewer in Rubens's Rockox Epitaph', Arts 12, no. 6 (2023): 251. · KMSKA, 'Five special Rubens restorations'. · KMSKA (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen), collection record 'Epitaaf van Nicolaas Rockox en zijn vrouw Adriana Perez', Peter Paul Rubens, 1613–1615, oil on panel, inv. 307-311 — herkomst (provenance) line. The same record states 'Op de zijluiken zien we de opdrachtgevers: Nicolaas Rockox (1560-1640; links) en zijn vrouw Adriana Perez (1568-1619, rechts)', carrying the wings with the couple's portraits. · KMSKA, 'History' — the museum's own account of the 1794 French seizure of Antwerp church art and the post-Waterloo return of 5 December 1815, when twenty-six paintings, mostly by Rubens, entered the academy museum. · James Pilgrim, 'Rubens's Skepticism', Renaissance Quarterly 75, no. 3 (2022): 917–67. The same article states: 'Commissioned by Nicolaas Rockox and Adriana Perez in around 1613 to serve as their funerary monument in the Church of the Friars Minor Recollects'.
Then he said to Thomas: Put in thy finger hither and see my hands. And bring hither the hand and put it into my side. And be not faithless, but believing.
John 20:27 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)