Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Date: 1635
Size: 204 x 158 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Wood
The artist, his wife Helena, and one of their sons appear within an idealized version of the garden at the mansion Rubens built in his native city of Antwerp. 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 physical connection.
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