Peter Paul Rubens Le Chapeau de Paille (The Straw Hat)
c.1626
Oil on panel. National Gallery,
London, UK.
Portrait of Susanne Fourment.
Susanna Fourment was related by
marriage to Rubens' first wife,
Isabella Brant.
Later the widowed Rubens married Susanna's sister
Helena Fourment.
Rubens is often called
Prince of Baroque painters. In his style he successfully
united the features of Northern and Flemish art with those of Italy.
His influence on the painters of his century was enormous, as it was on
sculpture and architecture. He was a versatile genius and rivaled in inventive
power the great minds of the Italian Renaissance. He was a humanist and
classical archaeologist, a sumptuous designer of religious, historical
and allegorical canvases and a supreme master in "pure" landscape. Rubens
was endlessly active. There are thousands of works by his hand, scattered
through collections and museums across the world. The paintings amount
to more than three thousand. He also gave the world the great number of
pupils, the celebrated artists
van
Dyck,
Jordaens,
Snyders
and
Cornelis de Vos are among them.
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Peter Paul Rubens
