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02-06-2026
Peter Paul Rubens

Siegen, Westphalia (Germany), 1577 - Antwerp (Belgium), 1640

Peter Paul Rubens See author's file

Deucalion and Pyrrha

1636 - 1637. Oil on panel.
Room 079

Humanity´s rebirth after the flood is represented in Greek mythology through the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha. After surviving the disaster, they threw stones over their shoulders, each of which became a new being. This story is told by the classical poet, Ovid, in his Metamorphoses. This painting is a sketch by Rubens for a painting —now lost— by Jan Cossiers for the Torre de la Parada. Rubens was inspired by certain aspects of the frescos with which Raphael decorated the Villa Farnesina in Rome.

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Imagen del carrusel
Imagen del carrusel

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Inventory number
P002041
Author
Peter Paul Rubens
Title
Deucalion and Pyrrha
Date
1636 - 1637
Technique
Oil
Support
Panel
Dimension
Height: 26.4 cm; Width: 41.7 cm
Series
Torre de la Parada
Provenance
Manuel Álvarez de Toledo y Lesparre, 12th Duke of Pastrana, 1886; bequest of María Dionisia Vives y Zires, Duchess of Pastrana, 1889
Entry date
1889

Bibliography +

Rooses, Max, Rubens. S. VIe et Ses Oeuvres, Flammarion, Paris, 1903, pp. 596-599.

Alpers, Svetlana, The Decoration of The Torre de la Parada, Corpus rubenianum Ludwig Burchard T IX, Amberes, 1971, pp. 200-201.

Díaz Padrón, Matías, Museo del Prado. Catálogo de pinturas. Escuela flamenca, Museo del Prado; Patronato Nacional de Museos, Madrid, 1975, pp. 302.

Held, Julius S., The oil sketches of Peter Paul Rubens : a critical catalogue..., The National Gallery of Art, Princeton, 1980, pp. 270-271.

Díaz Padrón, Matías, El siglo de Rubens en el Museo del Prado: catálogo razonado, Prensa Ibérica, Barcelona, 1995, pp. 1032.

Vergara, Alejandro, The Presence of Rubens in Spain., I II, A Bell & Howell Company, Ann Arbor, 1999, pp. 548.

Posada Kubissa, Teresa, Rubens en la colección Pastrana-Infantado, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XXI, 2003, pp. 24-40.

García Gual, C., 'Relato mítico y momento pictórico. Rubens y Ovidio'. En Historias inmortales, Barcelona, 2003, pp. 281-298.

Sánchez López, Andrés, La pintura de bodegones y floreros en España en el siglo XVIII, Fundación Arte Hispánico, Madrid, 2008, pp. 619.

Classical mythology in the Netherlands in the age of Renaiss..., Peeters, Amberes, 2009.

Maurer, Gudrun, Goya: lo bello y lo recóndito, La belleza encerrada: de Fra Angelico a Fortuny, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2013, pp. 196.

Georgievska-Shine, Aneta Silver, Larry, Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain, Ashgate, Surrey, 2014, pp. 33 Lám.3.26.

Mena Marqués, M.; Albarrán, V., Azúa, F. de, La belleza cautiva. Pequeños tesoros del Museo del Prado = La bellesa captiva. Petits tresors del Museo del Prado, Museo del Prado - Obra Social "La Caixa", Barcelona, 2014, pp. 107.

Prado captive beauty: treasures from the Prado Museum, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, 2015, pp. n.31.

Vergara, Alejandro, 'P.P.Rubens. Serie de la Torre de la Parada', En: Rubens pintor de bocetos, Museo Nacional del Prado,, Madrid, 2018, pp. 208-222 n.66.

Jover de Celis, Maite, Las marcas de fabricación como herramienta de datación en los soportes de madera de la pintura flamenca del siglo XVII en el Museo del Prado, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XXXVII n 55-57, 2019-2021, pp. 96-109 [nt.41].

Other inventories +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 962.
Autor P.P. Rubens / 962. Un cuadro titulado 'Deucalion y Pirra' / Alto 0,27 ancho 0,42

Inscriptions +

T.962.
Inscribed in blue. Front, lower left corner

B-4
Inscribed. Back, Upper right area

163
Inscribed in pen and ink. Back, Upper central area

B.51
Inscribed with chalk. Back, Upper left area

No163/Colección/Pastrana
Handwritten label in black ink. Back, Upper central area

MUSÉES ROYAUX DES BEAUX-ARTS DE BELGIQUE/9, RUE DU MUSÉE-BRUXELLES/EXPOSITION ESQUISSES DE RUBENS/Titre: Deucalion et Pirra nº163/Propriétaire: Prado Madrid/Adresse: Espagne
Handwritten label. Back, lower central area

Exhibitions +

Hand in Hand. Sculpture and colour in the Spanish Golden Age
Madrid
19.11.2024 - 02.03.2025

Rubens. Painter of Sketches
Madrid
10.04.2018 - 05.08.2018

Captive Beauty. Treasures from The Prado Museum
Tokio
10.10.2015 - 31.01.2016

Captive Beauty. Small Treasures at the Prado Museum
Barcelona
16.07.2014 - 05.01.2015

Captive Beauty. Fra Angelico to Fortuny
Madrid
21.05.2013 - 10.11.2013

Rubens
Madrid
05.11.2010 - 23.01.2011

Velázquez, Rubens, Claudio de Lorena y la pintura en la corte de Felipe IV
Bonn
07.10.1999 - 23.01.2000

Location +

Room 079 (On Display)

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