Ganymede and the Eagle (Vienna version) - Rubens
Description
It's more of an apotheosis, with all reference to the fight between the shepherd and the eagle having disappeared.
2. The painting belongs to the Princely Art Foundation Schwarzenberg, Vaduz. It is on deposit and on permanent display at the Liechtenstein Palace in Vienna.
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3. This painting or a close variant belonged to the Royal Palace Gallery. There is an engraving of it in the Galerie du Palais Royal gravée d'après les tableaux des differentes ecoles qui la composent : avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres & une description historique de chaque tableau, tome II, 1808 (Cote Bnf MFILM V-293). The commentary is as follows: "Jupiter, enamored of the beauty of Ganymede, son of Troas king of the Trojans, transports him in the form of an eagle to Olympus, where the young Hebe hands him the cup of nectar to serve himself to the Gods. In the distance, we see these gods seated at a banquet: Rubens has rendered this subject in the most picturesque manner, and if we notice in this painting some of the faults that are reproached to this great Master, we also find in it the stamp of this vast genius who treated all genres, who is inferior in none, and sublime in almost all."
Technical Data
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