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RUBENS Pierre-Paul (Suite de) 1577 - 1640 Venus tries to hold back Mars or The Evils of War Oil on canvas (lining). H. 85 - L. 139 cm Based on a composition (1638) by Peter Paul Rubens, an allegory of the Thirty Years' War, conserved in Florence at the Pitti Palace (Cf. Mina Gregori. Le Musée des Offices et le Palais Pitti, n° 674, p.519 & 520 - Mengès 1994).
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RUBENS Pierre-Paul (Suite de) 1577 - 1640 Venus tries to hold back Mars or The Evils of War Oil on canvas (lining). H. 85 - L. 139 cm Based on a composition (1638) by Peter Paul Rubens, an allegory of the Thirty Years' War, conserved in Florence at the Pitti Palace (Cf. Mina Gregori. Le Musée des Offices et le Palais Pitti, n° 674, p.519 & 520 - Mengès 1994).