The Triumph of the Church (after 1628): Art, History and Details

The Triumph of the Church (after 1628) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This work is likely a copy after Rubens’s oil sketch for the Triumph of the Eucharist tapestry series. Isabella, daughter of King Phillip II of Spain, commissioned the tapestries for a royal monastery in Madrid. The finished tapestries still hang there today, and the original oil sketch is in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Object facts

• Title: The Triumph of the Church
• Date: after 1628
• Creator attribution: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)
• Culture: Flanders
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood
• Dimensions: Framed: 129.5 x 96.5 x 8.5 cm (51 x 38 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 74.1 x 105.7 cm (29 3/16 x 41 5/8 in.)
• Collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1916.1037

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
• "The Wade Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 1 (1917): 3-12.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.

View the collection record

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