Brutus, plate 10 from Twelve Famous Greek and Roman Men, after Peter Paul Rubens, after the Antique
Primary
Lucas Vorsterman, the elder
(Zaltbommel, The Netherlands, 1595–Antwerp, Belgium, 1675)
NationalityFlemish, Europe
Date1638
MediumEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 11 1/16 × 7 5/8 in. (28.1 × 19.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.1105
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.1105
On View
Not on viewThis print is from a series of twelve engravings by different printmakers after Rubens' drawings of antique marble sculptures. Brutus is after a pen drawing by Rubens now in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Rubens' drawing and the print are after an unidentified marble sculpture that was probably part of Rubens' antiquities collection acquired from Sir Dudley Carleton in 1618.
Boetius Adams Bolswert
circa 1633