
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)Flemish and Spanish Baroque · 1610s–1630sPainted here after this hand, never after their pictures
Flemish and Spanish Baroque 1577–1640
Peter Paul Rubens
Abundance, swirling flesh and cloth.
Gone 386 years, so the hand is everyone’s. We describe it to the painters: the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke. The picture is yours.
Default palette: Florentine
What shall we hang here?The line above becomes the first.
Painted here 3 judged
The hand, three times over
Each of these was painted in this studio in this hand and passed the art gate before it hung. Nothing here is a photograph of a painting.






