Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740, Britishafter Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1577–1640, Flemish
Title:
Victorious Hero Takes Occasion to Conclude Peace
Date:
1720
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache heightened with gold on vellum
Dimensions:
Frame: 17 1/4 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (43.8 x 52.1 x 3.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brush and gold paint, lower right : "B. Lens Fecit. | July: 21: 1720"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1982.6
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
children | brocade | owl | angels | peace | fruit | wings | women | men | blue | religious and mythological subject | putti | armor | shield | hero | nudes | lion | nude
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 27, no. 100, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Henry R. Lew, Smitten by Catherine, Hybrid Publishers, Melbourne, Victoria, Audtralia, 2016, pp.51-53, 63, Color Plate fig. 9, NJ18.D1187 L49 2016 (LC) OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 27, no. 100, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 38-39, no. 26, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)John Wilmerding, Essays in honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor, Essays , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & Hanover, NH, 1986, pp. 202, 203-211, fig. 1 (p. 202), N7442.2 M455 1986 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Rubens's influence in Britain endured long after the age of Charles I, as this copy of a Rubens allegory from the eighteenth century shows. Bernard Lens III-the son of Bernard Lens II whose print after Van Dyck is shown nearby-was a miniature painter and copyist of Old Master paintings on vellum. Here Minerva introduces a hero to Occasion in order to conclude peace. Gallery label for Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)