In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
The biblical King David strums his harp, performing the music of heaven in concert with five angels. Ornate fictive architecture frames this celestial tableau. Despite its small size, Rubens's painting displays a striking monumentality: this is due to its status as a modello (preparatory study) for a tapestry in his Triumph of the Eucharist cycle. The tapestries were displayed on special occasions in the church of the Convent of Descalzas Reales, Madrid.
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Peter Candid (Pieter de Witte, Pietro Candido)|Johann Sadele
Jan van den Hoecke — The Judgment of Midas
God met engelen in de wolken
Giuseppe Diamantini — Saturn, Eros, and a Woman
Peter Paul Rubens — St. Albert of Louvain
Simon Vouet|Michel Dorigny — Triumph of Galatea
Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos
Anton Raphael Mengs — The Triumph of History over Time
Domenico Fetti — Vertumnus and Pomona
Sebastiano Ricci — The Exaltation of the True Cross
Jacob de Wit — Allegory of the Arts
Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes") — Polyp
