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- dran.—Landon, Musée, x. Pl. 25; Filhol, x.
Pl. 697.
By Rubens, National Gallery, London; wood, H. 5 ft. 7 in. × 7 ft. 9 in. Scene in Forum, with a triumphal arch and the Pantheon in background, where the military games are going on; at left, seated on a dais, Romulus gives the signal to his soldiers, who are seizing and bearing away the struggling women. Formerly in Mme. Boschaert's Collection, Antwerp; purchased by J. J. Angerstein, whence passed to National Gallery. Engraved by Martinasi (1770); J. Young. Similar subject, painted about 1628, Escorial; study in Ashburton Collection, London, formerly in Danoot Collection, Brussels. Similar subject, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Waagen, Treasures, i. 350; ii. 102; Angerstein Gal., Pl. 6; Beechey, Reynolds, ii. 149, 188.
Rape of the Sabines, Nicolas Poussin, Louvre, Paris.
Subject treated also by Giulio Romano, National Gallery, London; Luca Cambiaso, Palazzo Imperiale, Genoa; Valerio Castello, Palazzo Brignole Sale, Genoa, and Uffizi; Francesco Bassano, Turin Gallery; Antonio Bellucci, Cassel Gallery; Il Fattore, National Gallery, London; Adriaen Backer, Brunswick Gallery; Sebastiano Ricci, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.
SABINES AND ROMANS, RECONCILIATION
OF, Rubens, Escorial, near Madrid;
canvas. Companion to Rape of Sabines in
Escorial. The two armies, in presence of
each other, are restrained from hostilities
by the Sabine women, who, with their infants
in their arms, rush between them.
Painted about 1628. Study in Ashburton
Collection, London, formerly in Danoot Collection,
Brussels. Same subject, Munich
Gallery.—Waagen, ii. 102; Smith, ii. 175;
Beechey, Reynolds, 149.
SABINE WOMEN, Louis David, Louvre,
Paris; canvas, H. 12 ft. 8 in. × 17 ft.; signed,
dated 1799. The battle between the Romans
under Romulus and the Sabines under Tatius
interrupted by the Sabine women, who