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Oct 28, 2022 · This gory masterpiece by renowned Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens is a vivid take on a biblical story. But the painting itself is subject to another fascinating tale: For over two centuries, it...
Jan 15, 2021 · In July 2002, Rubens’s rediscovered painting Massacre of the Innocents, which depicts the Biblical scene of a violent massacre in Bethlehem, fetched a price of £49.5 million ($76.5 million)...
Jul 11, 2002 · The Bond Street salesroom burst into applause after eight bidders fought to buy the work, ''The Massacre of the Innocents'' (1609-1611), a large, biblically inspired painting depicting...
The work was sold at auction at Sotheby's, London on July 10, 2002, for £49.5 million (C$117 million) to Canadian businessman and art collector Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.
- Oil on Canvas, Flemish Baroque
Nov 30, 2018 · The exhibition will mark the return of the masterpiece The Massacre of the Innocents – a jewel from the AGO Collection, currently on loan to the Rubens House in Antwerp, Belgium where it was originally painted.
Aug 10, 2018 · In the 400 years since its creation, The Massacre of the Innocents has crossed oceans and mountain ranges, survived wars, been lost and found, and set an auction record. But the painting has never been exhibited in a European museum.
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The Massacre of the Innocents was sold at auction in 2002 for a record £49.5 million or $76.7 million at Sotheby’s, London and donated by the buyer, Canadian businessman Kenneth Thompson, to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
