Cadmus, Guided by Minerva, Observes the Spartoi Fighting, Peter Paul Rubens (after), before 1747

…; collection of the Earls of Kingston, Kilronan Castle, near Carrick-on-Shannon, County Roscommon, Ireland;{The Earl of Kingston’s bookplate is on the reverse.}…; possibly Sackville Gallery, London, 1930 (as on panel, 22 x 42 cm);{Alpers (S. Alpers, _Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard_, IX:_The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada_, Brussels/London/New York 1971, under no. 9a) records Ludwig Burchard’s view that the Sackville Gallery picture was identical with the Rijksmuseum picture, despite the apparent difference in size.}…;Franz Koenigs (1881-1941) Haarlem, in or before 1933;{When exhibited in the _Rubens-Tentoonstelling, Catalogus der Rubens-Tentoonstelling ten bate van der Vereeniging ‘Rembrandt’_, dealer cat. Amsterdam (Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker), August-September 1933, no. 30.} from whom on loan to the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1935;{D. Hannema, Verzameling F. Koenigs, Rotterdam 1935, p. 11, no. 29.} redeemed by the Lisser & Rosenkranz Bank, Amsterdam, 2 April 1940;{Franz Koenigs used his collection of drawings and paintings in 1935 as a secure for a loan at the Lisser & Rosenkranz Bank. In the Archive Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, correspondence Collection Koenigs 1933-1949, no. 1.1.20, is a letter from the director of Museum Boymans, Rotterdam to the director of Lisser & Rosenkranz Bank, Amsterdam, dated 19 April 1940, that states that the painting was removed from the museum by Goudstikker, 19 April 1940.} sold, by custodian Goudstikker, fl. 17,000, (but paid fl. 14,500), to Isaäc de Bruijn (1872-1953), May 1940;{Correspondence between De Bruijn and the director of the Rijksmuseum, Schmidt-Degener (RMA 1434) and the _Herkomst Gezocht_ website; between De Bruijn’s notification that he would buy the sketch on 27 April and the deadline for payment of 1 July, The Netherlands had been invaded by Nazi Germany on 10 May; Goudstikker had died four days later and his firm had been taken over by the Nazis on 10 June.} bequeathed by Isaäc de Bruijn (1872-1953) and his wife, Johanna Geertruida de Bruijn-Van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Muri bei Bern, 1949, but kept in usufruct;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1961; on loan to the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 1999-2011

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