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Abduction of the Sabine Women
Johann Heinrich Schönfeldc. 1640
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Shortly after Rome was founded, the Romans abducted the women of the neighboring Sabines to be their wives. During the ensuing war, the Sabine women intervened, making peace between the two sides. Painted in Naples, this canvas seems to be the last of four versions of the subject painted by Schönfeld (two in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, another in a private collection).
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- Title: Abduction of the Sabine Women
- Creator: Johann Heinrich Schönfeld (German, 1609-1684)
- Date Created: c. 1640
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 129 x 178 x 7.5 cm (50 13/16 x 70 1/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 110 x 160 cm (43 5/16 x 63 in.)
- Provenance: Anne Lise Thomasen, Copenhagen (1930)., (Galerie Grünwald; Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.143
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Germany, 17th century
- Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Collection: P - German before 1800
- Accession Number: 1982.143
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