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Abduction of the Sabine Women
Johann Heinrich SchönfeldLinkedCulture matchlcp-2ea5225d3a84
- Date
- c. 1640
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 150719
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Shortly after Rome was founded, the Romans abducted the women of the neighboring Sabines to be their wives. During the ensuing war, the Sabine women intervened, making peace between the two sides. Painted in Naples, this canvas seems to be the last of four versions of the subject painted by Johann Schönfeld (two in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, another in a private collection).
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- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Provenance
- Anne Lise Thomasen, Copenhagen (1930). | (Galerie Grünwald; Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
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