Tag: Flemish

The Honeysuckle Bower (c.1609-1610)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Honeysuckle Bower c.1609–1610 Oil on canvas, transferred to wood, 178 x 136.5 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Rubens returned to Antwerp in 1608 after an eight-year stay in Italy. The following year he married Isabella Brant. This…

Portrait of a Man (1597)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer 1597 Oil on copper, 21.6 x 14.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This sensitive portrait on copper is one of Rubens’s earliest known works. The square…

Hélène Fourment putting on a glove (c.1632)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Hélène Fourment putting on a glove c.1632 Oil on oak, 96.6 x 69 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich When compared with the elaborate and imposing full-length portrait of Helene Fourment in the collection (inv. no. 340), the present…

Hélène Fourment

(1614–1673) Hélène in Art: Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Hélène Fourment putting on a glove c.1632 Alte Pinakothek, Munich     Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Hélène Fourment (“The Furry”) c.1636–1638 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna     Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Hélène Fourment with two of her children…

Portrait of Isabella Brant (c.1620-1625)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of Isabella Brant c.1620–1625 Oil on wood, 53 x 46 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Isabella Brant was Rubens’s first wife. He painted her many times in many different ways before she died at the…

Isabella Brant

(1591–1626) Isabella Brant or Brandt Isabella in Art: Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Honeysuckle Bower c.1609–1610 Alte Pinakothek, Munich     Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of Isabella Brant c.1620–1625 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland     Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Isabella Brant…