In the image below, you can see another version of the scene, also by Peter Paul Rubens. Some art historians believe that these two paintings are part of a series of practice paintings, or cartoons, intended for a set of tapestries.

“Two tapestries had been found related to two of the four cartoons, one in Cardiff [Wales] and one in a private collection in Italy. Inscriptions in the borders prove that the tapestries and the cartoons depict a Romulus series.” – RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History