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Object Type
print
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
British
Production date
1740-1765
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
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
self-portrait
Associated names
Portrait of:
Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of:
Helena Fourment
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
W & G Smith
Acquisition date
1841
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1841,0809.3