Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman 1505 Spruce, 33 × 24.5 × 2.7 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at the top in the middle with the monogram, dat. 1505 We don’t know who the charming young lady is,…
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Lady with purple scarf c.1895 Oil on canvas, 67 × 41 × 2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Family of Jan Brueghel the Elder c.1613–1615 Oil on panel, 95.2 x 125.1 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This painting celebrates family and friendship. It is a touching portrait of the family of the artist…
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…
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…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of a Young Woman with a Rosary c.1609–1610 Oil on panel, 107 x 76.7 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This portrait of an unidentified female sitter can be dated to between 1609 and 1610 when Rubens was…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Hélène Fourment with two of her children (Clara Johanna, born in 1632, and Frans, born in 1633) c.1636 Oil on panel, 115 x 85 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted around 1636, given the ages of the…
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…
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…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Old Woman and Boy with Candles c.1616–1617 Oil on panel, 62.5 x 77 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague