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Peter Paul Rubens

The Feast of Herod (recto)

c. 1637–38
pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk, touched with white gouache

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The two stories that Rubens depicted on the front and back of this sheet of paper each feature a gruesome death, the result of revenge at the hands of a powerful woman.

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