Author: KEYSER, Nicaise de.
Title: Rubens peignant la femme dite au chapeau de Paille.
Description: (Paris, ca. 1860). Engraving of Rubens painting the so-called Woman with the Straw Hat after Nicaise Dekeyser by Alfred Lemoine. Ca. 57 x 76 cm. Several people from Peter Paul Rubens' circle are depicted. Rubens himself is sitting in front of an easel, holding his painting utensils in his hand. Those present listen to the singing of a singer in the foreground. To her right, Rubens' pupil, Anthonis van Dyck, plays the lute. Ruben's wife, Hélène Fourment, is seated in the centre of the painting. Behind her stands Ruben's patron, the regent and Archduke Albrecht VII. In the background is a black servant holding a tray with glasses. Nicaise de Keyser (1813 - 1887 was a Belgian painter of mainly history paintings and portraits who was one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting. - Overall light soiling in the margins, on the image a few small foxing spots are visible, otherwise fine.

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