Council of the gods. 1707.

After the original by P. P. Rubens.

Engraving, etching. 490 x 810.

Under the image, on the left: Rubens pinxit.; on the right: I. M. Nattier delineavit. Picart sculpts. 17[07]; in the center: Le Gouvernement de la Reine. La felicité du Gouvernement de la Reine … afin qu’elle se maintienne dans le Royaume, below: A Paris chez G. Duchange Graveur du Roy rue St. Jacques audesses de la rue des Mathurins. Avec Privilege du Roy.

Sheet from a series of twenty-four engravings dedicated to the life of Queen Regent of France Maria de' Medici, made by various masters after Rubens' originals. A series of paintings was painted by Rubens in 1622-1623 for the Queen's Luxembourg Palace in Paris.

The originals are in the Louvre.

Other sheets of the series: No. 21, 22, 43, 44, 54, 69.

Inv. G 655.

Literature: Le Blanc, t. 3, p. 193, No. 494-496; Schneevoogt, 1873, p. 220, No. 19 (15); Roses, v. 3, p. 239, No. 741.

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577, Siegen – 1640, Antwerp) — Flemish painter, one of the most prominent representatives of the Baroque era, diplomat, collector.

Nattier, Jean-Marc (1685, Paris – 1766, Paris) — French painter, the founder of a new style of painting – a historical portrait.