Rubens, The Abduction Of Leucippus' Daughters By Castor And Pollux, Large Oil On Canvas.

Painted by Pierre Paul Rubens (1577-1640) around 1617, the painting The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus recounts a classic story from mythology : The kidnapping of Phoebe and Hilary, the daughters of the king of Argos, Leucippus, by the twins Castor and Pollux (seduced by the beauty of the princesses).
By enacting this episode, they engaged in a battle against the brothers and fiancés of the two young women, during which Castor was killed and Pollux asked their father Jupiter to grant them immortality.

The artist imposes here a style that we know well, namely a very sensual and quivering representation of bodies.
The buttocks, the stomach, the breasts are represented by a way of painting very specific to the Baroque painter.
Thus, Paul Rubens here exploits a mythological scene to declare a hymn to feminine beauty. There is no religious or political register here for an artist who in his time was an ambassador for the most powerful.
His numerous diplomatic actions earned him an ennoblement by King Philip IV of Spain, as did King Charles I of England.

The work is now on display at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.

Very beautiful reproduction of Rubens' original work, from the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, formerly the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, recognized for the quality of the reproductions executed by its students with very little material. The translation of the Cyrillic handwriting on the back of the painting reads:
"Russian Academy of Fine Arts, March 12, 1976, Igor Fiziyev".

Beautiful gilded wood frame in excellent condition.

Dimensions:
without frame: 120 cm × 90 cm
With frame: 133 cm × 102 cm

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