Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus (verso)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus (verso)

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) · c. 1637–38

pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The two stories that Rubens depicted on the front and back of this sheet of paper each feature a gruesome death, the result of revenge at the hands of a powerful woman.

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