UNKNOWN MASTER, French (active around 1770) |
The Rape of the Sabine Womenc. 1770Oil on paper on canvas, 57 x 109 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington | |
Because of the similarities to known works of the same subject by Rubens, this sketch on two separate sheets of laid paper butted together with a vertical join, was attributed to the Flemish master. However, the attribution was changed in 1973 to an eighteenth-century French artist. |