# Apollo and the Python [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUBENS, Peter Paul]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 27 x 42 cm ## Commentary This sketch was made as part of the projected decoration of the hunting pavilion Torre de la Parada of the Spanish king Philip IV near Madrid. For this project a number of painters from Rubens's circle, among them Cornelis de Vos, Theodor van Thulden and Erasmus Quellinus II painted decorations after oil sketches by Rubens. The present <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/v/vos/cornelis/parada3.html'\)" href="/html/v/vos/cornelis/parada3.html">oil sketch was used by Cornelis de Vos.</a> It displays Rubens's skill at generating the same sensuality and poetic character in these small panels as in his large-format mythological works. ## Related artworks - [A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Albert and Nicolaas Rubens]() - [Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()