Wednesday 19 July 2023
After Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish 1577-1640- Portrait of the artist; oil on canvas, 40.5 x...
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Description
After Sir Peter Paul Rubens,
Flemish 1577-1640-
Portrait of the artist;
oil on canvas, 40.5 x 33 cm.
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK.
Note:
The present work is a copy after Rubens' 1623 self-portrait in oils on panel at Buckingham Palace, London [RCIN 400156]. The original painting is double the size of the present work and was commissioned by Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby, as a gift for Charles I when still Prince of Wales. Rubens is portrayed as a courtier and diplomat, wearing sombre – but fashionable and expensive – black clothing. He carries no obvious attributes alluding to his profession. The black hat worn at an acute angle, while fashionable, also served to conceal the artist’s hairline, which, as his self- portrait in the Galleria degli Uffizi of c.1615 demonstrates, had begun to recede. The objects in the background of the original portrait (which are less discernible here) could be described as ‘a rock and a reddening sky’, which, in Latin, would read, 'Petrus et caelum rubens'. It has been suggested that the artist included them as a play on his own name, or indeed that the whole portrait depicts a shame-faced, blushing or 'rubens' Rubens.
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