Artist: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original by master engraver Arthur Willmore (British, 1814-1888).
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Dimensions: Image Size 6 5/8 x 10 1/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Summer; landscape with countryfolk taking their produce to a city in the distance, some driving cows and one in the foreground leading a horse drawing a cart laden with vegetables, large trees on the right on the bank of a stream, a cottage on the left.
Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish painter who was the greatest exponent of Baroque painting’s dynamism, vitality, and sensuous exuberance. Though his masterpieces include portraits and landscapes, Rubens is perhaps best known for his religious and mythological compositions. As the impresario of vast decorative programs, he presided over the most famous painter’s studio in Europe. His powers of invention were matched by extraordinary energy and versatility.