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{{Short description|Painting by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout}}
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'''''The Continence of Scipio''''' ({{langx|nl|De grootmoedigheid van Scipio}}) is a c. 1653 painting by Dutch artist [[Gerbrand van den Eeckhout]]. It shows [[The Continence of Scipio|the continence of Scipio]] and is now in the collection of the [[Rijksmuseum]] in Amsterdam.
==Description==
The painting shows the moment when Scipio informs the groom that he can have his bride, as well as the riches that the bride's parents have just paid in ransom. Of the riches displayed, the [[Memorial Guild Cup (Adam van Vianen)|Memorial Guild Cup]], a famous silver ewer by [[Adam van Vianen]], is also in the Rijksmuseum collection. Van den Eeckhout made another version of the same subject, that also features the ewer (lying on its side), which is now in the collection of the [[Toledo Museum of Art]]:
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File:Gerbrand van den Eeckhout - The Magnanimity of Scipio.jpg|Toledo version
File:Adam van Vianen - Memorial Gilded Ewer for Amsterdam Guild in Memory of his Brother BK-1976-75.jpg|The ewer
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This painting is one of several paintings in the collection of art dealer D. Katz that were taken to the [[Führermuseum]] in [[Linz]]. After [[World War II]] it was returned with other [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] looted art to the Netherlands and has been on loan to the Rijksmuseum since. In 1966 it was noticed by the silver curator of art in the museum, Theresia M. Duyvené de Wit Klinkhamer, who included it in her overview of paintings that show the Adam van Vianen ewer.<ref>Th.M. Duyvené de Wit-Klinkhamer, 'Een vermaarde zilveren beker', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 17 (1966), p. 92</ref>
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