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Object Type
Museum number: 1841,0809.3
Title: Object: Rubens with his Wife and Child
Description: Triple portrait, after a self-portrait, of the painter standing in garden with his second wife Hélène Fourment and their unnamed young son, all whole-length; Rubens to front, looking at his wife, who is facing the boy ashe looks up at her, guiding him by a rein; ornamental arch and fountain behind; published state. Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: James McArdell; After: Peter Paul Rubens
School/style
Production date: 1740-1765
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 512 millimetres; Width: 350 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: After the painting by Rubens in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, inv.no.1981.238 (Rooses 1052); formerly in the collection of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild.
Bibliographic references: Goodwin 1903 / British Mezzotinters: James McArdell (121.III); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (159.II); Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (163.84); Corpus Rubenianum XIX / Portraits (141) (copy 3)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Portrait of: Peter Paul Rubens; Portrait of: Helena Fourment
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1841
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1841,0809.3

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