The Brazen Serpent | |
Artist: | Peter Paul Rubens |
Year: | c 1635–1640 |
Medium: | oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 186.4 |
Width Metric: | 264.5 |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
Museum: | National Gallery London |
The Brazen Serpent is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, probably dating to between 1635 and 1640. It is now in the National Gallery in London. Its shows a scene from the Old Testament (Numbers 21: 6–9).
It seems to include some work by his students, who may have blocked it in from a modello by Rubens himself, with the artist working up the result.