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| Keywords: Peter Paul Rubens 300.jpg Artwork Creator Peter Paul Rubens This magnificent portrait of Rubens his second wife Helena Fourment and one of their five children has usually been dated on stylistic grounds to the late 1630s The child's blue sash heavy shoes and plain collar resemble adult male attire and suggest that he is either Frans Rubens born in 1633 or more likely Peter Paul born March 1 1637 s 1630 oil on panel cm 203 8 158 1 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery 629 <small>See source section </small> object history Rubens married Helena Fourment on December 6 1630 when he was fifty-three and she was sixteen Helena became the model and the inspiration for many paintings by Rubens dating from the 1630s particularly those dealing with themes of ideal beauty or love The present composition was considerably revised during execution to shift the emphasis from Rubens as the dominant half of a courtly couple to Helena as ideal wife and mother The parrot long a symbol of the Virgin Mary suggests ideal motherhood while the fountain caryatid and garden setting imply fertility and recall Rubens's own garden in Antwerp where he frequently escorted Helena exhibition history The painting hung at Blenheim the Churchill family seat between its presentation to the first Duke of Marlborough by the city of Brussels in 1704 and its purchase by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild in 1884 credit line Gift of Mr and Mrs Charles Wrightsman in honor of Sir John Pope-Hennessy 1981 accession number 1981 238 437532 PD-old-100 Rubens his Wife Helena Fourment and one of Their Children Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
