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| Artist | Attributed to after Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish painter and draftsman, 1577-1640) |
| Previous attributions | Previously attributed to school of Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish painter and draftsman, 1577-1640) Previously attributed to Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish painter and draftsman, 1577-1640) |
| Title | The Infant Christ and St John with a Lamb |
| Date earliest | possibly about 1620 |
| Date latest | possibly about 1700 |
| Material | oil on panel |
| Measurements | 48.6 x 63.8 cm |
| Description | The Christ Child, nude, seated on a crimson drape on the trunk of a tree and the infant St John wearing an animal skin. There is a lamb between them and both have their hands on it. Beyond them is an open landscape. |
| Subject | religion (Christ; St John) |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Current accession number | 36 |
| Previous accession number(s) | 58 (1855) |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. |
| Principal publications | McLellan Catalogue, Glasgow, 1855, p. 5, no. 58, as by Rubens; Waagen, G., Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, p. 459, as School of Rubens; Miles, H., Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1961, I, pp. 121-122, no. 36, as after Rubens. |
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| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Robert Wenley |
