Rubens Helena Fourment and Their Son Frans by Peter Paul Rubens
by Carlos Diazna Fourment
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Rubens Helena Fourment and Their Son Frans by Peter Paul Rubens
Artist
Carlos Diazna Fourment
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Rubens Helena Fourment and Their Son Frans by Peter Paul Rubens - Remastered by Carlos Diaz
ca. 1635
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
The artist, his wife Helena, and one of their sons appear within an idealized version of the garden at Rubens’s mansion in Antwerp, which survives to this day. The leather strap across Rubens’s chest alludes to his right, as a nobleman, to carry a sword, while the rhyming ribbon tied across his son’s chest playfully positions him as his father’s heir. There was a nearly forty-year age gap between Rubens and his second wife, whom contemporaries widely recognized as his muse and model. The juxtaposition of her plump and pearlescent young hand with his ruddy and weathered one emphasizes both their physical disparities and their erotic connection.
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