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Sigismund I/III (1566–1632), King of Sweden and Poland, possibly 1624
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    Sigismund I/III (1566–1632), King of Sweden and Poland, possibly 1624

    TitleSigismund I/III (1566–1632), King of Sweden and Poland, possibly 1624
  • Technique/ MaterialOlja på duk
  • DimensionsDimensions: (h x b) 266 x 184 cm
    Frame: (h x b x dj) 315 x 216 x 13 cm
  • Artist/Maker Artist: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, born 1577, dead 1640. Workshop of
  • Depicted PersonKing Sigismund, Swedish, born 1566-06-20, dead 1632-04-19
  • CategoryPaintings, Paintings
  • Classificationpainting
  • Inventory No.NMGrh 2012
  • AcquisitionOmföring från NM 598 (Kongl. Museum 1866, Tessin-Fredrik I 1749)
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    This equestrian portrait of the Swedish-Polish king Sigismund I/III may have been made in connection with his son Władysław’s visit to Antwerp in 1624, when a large order was placed for tapestries. It was painted in Rubens’s studio, chiefly by his close collaborator Cornelis de Vos. The portrait originally belonged to Johan Gabriel Stenbock and eventually to Carl Gustaf Tessin, who took it to Paris, where the conservator Louis François Colins extended the canvas.