The Adoration of the Eucharist

1. Probably in the collection of the artist, Antwerp, until his death in 1640 and then included in a large lot of oil sketches in his estate sale, 1642 [Jeffrey M. Muller, “Oil-Sketches in Rubens’s Collection,” Burlington Magazine 117 (1975), pp. 374-75, and Held 1980, p. 11, argue that the oil sketches were disposed of in this way]. Probably Jean van Lancker, Antwerp; his estate sale, Antwerp, 23 May, 1769 and following days, lot 72, “Une belle Esquisse, un Sanctuaire au milieu de 4 petites pieces jointes ensemble, Rubens, B[ois], 13 x 12. Canon Pierre André Joseph Knyff, Antwerp (died 1784), his estate sale, Antwerp, J. Grange, 18 July 1785 and following days, lot 74, “Un Autel enrichi d’ornemens & de colonnes, sur lequel est, représentée l’Adoration de l’Eucharistie: à droite, on voit le Pape à genoux, qui offre de l’encens; il est accompagné de Diàcres, de Prêtres & de beaucoup d’autres figures; à gauches sont l’Empereur, un Roi, des Princes, & plusieurs autres personnes, qui adorent le Saint Sacrement, au-dessus duquel on apperçoit un grand nombre d’Anges qui jouent des instrumens. Dans cette belle esquisse bien terminée et bien coloriée, l’on remarque beaucoup de finesse & de vérité. 11 ½ x 11 3/4 . B[ois]”, to Giraud, according to annotated catalogue in the RKD, The Hague]. Dowdeswell Galleries, London, by 1914, when sold to Martin A. Ryerson [an invoice from Dowdeswell to Ryerson is dated June 23, 1914]; Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago (1856–1932), from 1914; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, P. P. Rubens, Paintings - Oiksketches - Drawings, 29 June - 30 September, 1977, no. 70.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Age of Rubens, September 22, 1993 - January 2, 1994, cat. 20; Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, January 20 -April 24, 1994.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor, October 17, 2007 – January 6, 2008 and Madrid, Palacio Real, March 6 – June 1, 2008, no. 22.
• Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Rubens: Painter of Sketches, April 9– August 5, 2018, cat. 35; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beunigen, September 9, 2018 – January 13, 2019.

• W. R. Valentiner, “Rubens’ Paintings in America,” Art Quarterly 9 (1946), p. 167.
• Jan-Albert Goris and Julius S. Held, Rubens in America (New York, 1947), pp. 34-35, no. 57.
• Erik Larsen, P. P. Rubens with a Complete Catalogue of his Works in America (Antwerp), 1952, p. 218, no.74.
• H. Gerson and J.W. Goodison, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Catalogue of Paintings, vol. 1, Dutch and Flemish (Cambridge, 1960), pp. 106-107.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 407-408.
• Julius S. Held, “Rubens’ Triumph of the Eucharist and the Modello in Louisville,” Bulletin of the J. B. Speed Art Museum 26, 3 (1968), pp. 12-18, fig. 10.
• Justus Müller Hofstede, “Neue Ölskizzen von Rubens,” Städel-Jahrbuch, N.F. 2 (1969), pp. 202, 234-35.
• Paulina and Juan José Junquera, “Descalzas Reales: Serie de tapices, La Apoteosis de la Eucaristia,” Reales Sitios, 6, 22 (1969), pp. 22-23, 31, ill. p. 29.
• Julius S. Held, “Rubens’s Glynde Sketch and the Installation of the Whitehall Ceiling” Burlington Magazine 112 (1970), p. 277.
• Charles Scribner III, “Sacred Architecture: Rubens’s Eucharist Tapestries,” Art Bulletin 57 (1975), pp. 519-20, 525, fig. 4.
• Frans Baudouin, Peter Paul Rubens, trans. Elsie Callander (New York, 1977), p. 314, pl. 81.
• Nora de Poorter, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part II, The Eucharist Series (London and Philadelphia, 1978), pp. 41-42, 50, 84-88, 90-92, 101-105, 176, 189, 223, 258-262, no. 1-5a, fig. 95.

[Postcards Addressed to Walker Evans and Filed by the Artist with his Collection of Postcards]

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Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer

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The Triumph of Henry IV

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Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

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Wolf and Fox Hunt

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Feast of Acheloüs

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

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Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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