Peter Paul Rubens

Private collection, Wiesbaden;

In the collection of the aunt of the present owner in Münich, by 1980;

from whom acquired by the present owner in 1991

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Aus der Graphischen Sammlung, 2011 (no catalogue);

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Rubens & Co. Zeichnende Meister aus Flandern, 2018 (no catalogue);

Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Becoming Famous: Peter Paul Rubens berühmt, 2021, no. 35, reproduced in colour p. 153

U. Heinen, 'Immolatio boum: Eine unpublizierte Zeichnung für ein Scheinrelief an Rubens' Haus,' Wallraf-Richartz-Jahnbuch, 71, 2010, pp. 197-232;

N. Büttner, Rubens. Allegories and Subjects from Literature (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XVII), 2 vols., London/Turnhout 2018, vol. I, p. 163, under no. 13a, note 12;

R. Baumstark and G. Delmarcel, Rubens. Subjects from History. The Decius Mus Series. (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIII, 2), 2 vols., London/Turnhout 2019, vol. II, p. 41, under no. 2a;

V. Korbei, 'Rubens und die Antike,' in exh. cat., op. cit., Stuttgart 2021, pp. 153-54;

A.-M. Logan and K. Lohse Belkin, The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens, A Critical Catalogue, Volume Two 1609-1620, Turnhout 2022, Part 1, pp. 306-7, no. 406, reproduced Part 2, p. 315, fig. 527;

N. de Poorter and F. Baudouin, Rubens. Architecture and Sculpture. Rubens's House (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XXII), 2 vols., London/Turnhout 2022, vol. I, pp. 58, 137, 173, 352, 354, 364, no. 10A, vol. II, p. 234, fig. 65