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Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma is a 1603 painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. It is now held in the National Sculpture Museum in Valladolid. It shows the ancient Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Democritus.

Rubens produced the work as a commission for Francisco Gómez de Sandoval Rojas y Borja, valet to Philip III of Spain. It passed through several collections, ending up in that of the Syrian oil magnate Akram Ojjeh. After Ojjeh's death, it was sold to the Spanish Ministry of Culture for 175,000,000 pesetas in December 1999 via Christie's of London.

External links

• http://cvc.cervantes.es/el_rinconete/anteriores/junio_00/13062000_02.htm

На других языках

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- [en] Heraclitus and Democritus (Rubens)

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[fr] Héraclite et Démocrite (Rubens)

Héraclite et Démocrite est une peinture de 1603 réalisée par l'artiste flamand Pierre Paul Rubens. Elle est actuellement conservée au musée national de la sculpture à Valladolid. Le sujet en est les anciens philosophes grecs Héraclite et Démocrite.

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