- Title:
- The Coup de Lance
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Flemish
- Brief description:
- The soldiers pierced Christ's body to ensure he was dead (John 19: 31-4). A 'modello' for the high altarpiece for the church of the Récollets, Antwerp, installed in 1620. As this picture differs from the altarpiece in some respects, it may represent the first idea Rubens presented to the authorities who had commissioned the work.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1895-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1895
- Date - latest:
- 1895
- Associated concept:
- religious imagery
- Associated concept:
- Longinus
- Associated concept:
- good thief
- Associated concept:
- Mary Cleophas
- Associated concept:
- Christ
- Associated concept:
- Virgin Mary
- Associated concept:
- St Mary Magdalene
- Associated concept:
- St John the Evangelist
- Associated concept:
- Crucifixion
- Associated concept:
- bad thief
- Associated concept:
- Gospel of St John
- Credit line:
- On loan from the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 64.80
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 49.90
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- Oil on oak
- Object name:
- Picture; Flemish
- Object production date:
- before 1620
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1620
- Date - latest:
- 1620
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1600-24
- Object production person:
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Person's birth date:
- 1577
- Person's death date:
- 1640
- Object production place:
- Netherlands
- Object production place:
- Antwerp
- Other number:
- L1121
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0GRA-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- L1121
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- NG1865
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- 000-04KS-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- l31121
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- baroque
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Flemish School, circa 1600 - circa 1900
- Reference details:
- 193-7
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 593
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/085be6a5-3ad4-3657-9d37-365afb2a829f
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/085be6a5-3ad4-3657-9d37-365afb2a829f, National Gallery, CC BY
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