PETER PAUL RUBENS
(Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp)

A) Statue of King Albrecht II
STATUE DES DEUTSCHEN KÖNIGS ALBRECHT II.
Paper (on oak), 39 x 22 cm; inscribed on the
postament: »Imp. C. Albertus 2.«
Inv. No. GK 439
Provenance: Donation Barthold Suermondt, Aachen 1882
Current location: unknown; according to a letter by Clemens Toussaint supposedly in the
Pushkin Museum, Moscow since 1959

B) Statue of Emperor Ferdinand I
STATUE DES KAISERS FERDINAND I.
Oil on oak panel, 39 x 22 cm; inscribed on the postament:
»Imp. C. Ferdinandus«
Inv. No. GK 440
Provenance: Donation Barthold Suermondt, Aachen 1882
Current location: unknown; before 1972 Soviet-Union (?); 1972 Harry
Stern, Tel Aviv; 1972 USA (?); 1974 London; 1983, Tel
Aviv (?); 1995 Vienna; 2002 Vienna