Schelte Adams Bolswert and Peter Paul Rubens
The Conversion of Saint Paul
Flemish, 1624-1649
- Artist: Schelte Adams Bolswert
- Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
The Conversion of Saint Paul
Flemish, 1624-1649
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: in plate, across bottom: "Illustrissimo ac Reuerendissimo Domino, D. ANTONIO TRIST Gandensium, Dei gratia, Episcopo, S. Bauonis Domino, Euerbergensi Comiti &c. Doctorum Moecenati, omnium ingenuarum artium admiratori, laudatori in Ecclesiam profuso, in pauperes benefico, in nobiles benigno, in omnes comi. / a cuius manu nullus irremuneratus abijt, nullus moerens et spe sua frustratus, cum etiam absentium lacrymas munificentiae suae sponsia detergere consueuerit. vero, Apostolicae doctrinae et vitae, haeredi. magni Paulli amatori, imitatori, e Saullo Paullum [in smaller script:] S. a Bolswert MM. DD. S.S."; in image, at center: "P. P. Rubens pinxit"; "Cum Priuilegijs Regis Christianissimi, Serenissimae Infantis, et Ordinum confederatorum"; "S. a Bolswert sculp. et excudit"; in image, above Paul's face: "Domine, quid me vis facere!"; in image, from Christ: "Saule, Saule quid me perfequeris!"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
