British museum buys rare Rubens sketch

Oct. 9, 2008
The Tate Britain museum has purchased a rare sketch by Peter Paul Rubens to keep it from being sold abroad, the museum said. The Tate, with help from several art and heritage foundations, paid $9.9 million for the sketched version of Rubens' larger painting "...
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