Assumption of the Virgin

Artist Willem Panneels (Flemish, c. 1600 - after 1632)

After Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640)

DateBetween 1624-1630

MediumEtching

Credit LineBequest of Robert Getscher from the Getscher-Wilkinson Collection

CultureDutch

MarkingsWatermark bottom center

Object numberPC2014.14.65

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionArched etching of the painting by Rubens now in Neues Schloss Schleissheim (Rooses 361) with some variations. Panneels also completed a drawing (now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) at the same time, which is very similar to this design, but in reverse. At the bottom right, an arched entrance to the tomb reveals three women kneeling with the Virgin Mary's abandoned burial shroud, flowers strewn over the sheet in reference to the lilies that miraculously filled her empty tomb. The twelve apostles look on, some down at the empty shroud, and others up to the heavens, where the Virgin Mary is being held by a cloud of putti, her clothing elegantly swirling around her.

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