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Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp
Date: ca. 1635
Medium: Oil on wood
Size: 80 1/4 x 62 1/4 in. (203.8 x 158.1 cm)
Where to see it: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, in honor of Sir John Pope-Hennessy, 1981 · CC0 Public Domain · The Met · see it at the museum ↗

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About Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the

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