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Object Type
print
Museum number
1871,1209.2433
Title
Object:
Helena Forman, Rubens's Second Wife
Series:
Houghton Gallery
Description
Plate 36: Portrait of Rubens' second wife Helena Fourment standing whole-length to front with her hands around her waist, head turned slightly to right but looking to front; wearing black gown and plumed hat, ruff and holding ostrich feather in her left hand; landscape behind; lower margin with inscription trimmed; after Peter Paul Rubens. 1767 Engraving
Producer name
After:
Peter Paul Rubens
Print made by:
Thomas A E Chambars
Intermediary draughtsman:
Richard Earlom
Published by:
John Boydell
After:
Anthony van Dyck
(wrongly lettered)
School/style
Flemish
British
Production date
1767
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
475 millimetres
(trimmed)
Width:
342 millimetres
Curator's comments
After the painting by Rubens in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, inv.no.576; now in Galouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, inv.no.959 (Rooses 943). Plate 36 from the second volume from 'The Houghton Gallery', for comment see 2005,U.109. For another impression of this plate (with inscription) and comment see 1875,0710.3914.
Bibliographic references
Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens
(166.110)
Corpus Rubenianum XIX / Portraits
(undescribed)
Rubinstein 1991 / Richard Earlom (1743-1822) and Boydell's Houghton Gallery
(II.36)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Helena Fourment
Associated with:
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
(dedicatee)
Associated with:
John Boydell
(dedicator)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Colnaghi
Acquisition date
1871
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1871,1209.2433