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In 1776 the Empress Maria Theresa, through the medium of her ambassador,
Prince Starkenberg, bought them for 14,000 florins, whereby this masterpiece
came to Vienna and found a place of honour the following year in the Belvedere
...
In 1776 the Empress Maria Theresa, through the medium of her ambassador,
Prince Starkenberg, bought them for 14,000 florins, whereby this masterpiece
came to Vienna and found a place of honour the following year in the Belvedere
...
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He reckoned about 100 florins a day for his labour ... retus states that Rubens
makes designs for titlepages only in his leisure moments : so that if a drawing for
such purpose was required of him on a workingday his price for it was i00 florins.
He reckoned about 100 florins a day for his labour ... retus states that Rubens
makes designs for titlepages only in his leisure moments : so that if a drawing for
such purpose was required of him on a workingday his price for it was i00 florins.
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9 feet by 1 1 , for 600 florins. Other pictures are enumerated with the same
accuracy: a Leda with the Swan, attended by a Cupid; a life-size Christ on the
Cross, of which the artist says, that it was "perhaps the best picture he had ever
painted"; ...
9 feet by 1 1 , for 600 florins. Other pictures are enumerated with the same
accuracy: a Leda with the Swan, attended by a Cupid; a life-size Christ on the
Cross, of which the artist says, that it was "perhaps the best picture he had ever
painted"; ...
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It was however mutually arranged that Rubens should pay in addition 4000
florins for the antique works and 2000 florins worth of Brussel tapestry. Carleton
was particularly anxious that the artist himself should chose the latter, wich were
to be ...
It was however mutually arranged that Rubens should pay in addition 4000
florins for the antique works and 2000 florins worth of Brussel tapestry. Carleton
was particularly anxious that the artist himself should chose the latter, wich were
to be ...
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Cardinal Richelieu offered 10,000 florins for these works alone, but the
parishionors firmly declined his offer. Another painting, of a different type, but not
less admirable is the one belonging to the Liebfrauenkirche at Malines. It was
executed in ...
Cardinal Richelieu offered 10,000 florins for these works alone, but the
parishionors firmly declined his offer. Another painting, of a different type, but not
less admirable is the one belonging to the Liebfrauenkirche at Malines. It was
executed in ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Rubens Volume 9 of Monographs on artists |
| Author | Hermann Knackfuss |
| Translated by | Luise Marie Schwab Richter |
| Publisher | Velhagen & Klasing, 1904 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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