RubensThis biography of Peter Paul Rubens, written by German art historian Hermann Knackfuss, is considered to be the most authoritative text on the artist since its publication. |
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back of the composition , we may recognise in the fascinating portrait in the Dresden Gallery of a lady with a baby on her lap ( Fig . 35 ) , Frau Isabella , her face somewhat thin and worn , and her infant son .
back of the composition , we may recognise in the fascinating portrait in the Dresden Gallery of a lady with a baby on her lap ( Fig . 35 ) , Frau Isabella , her face somewhat thin and worn , and her infant son .
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We ought also to relate here a pleasing anecdote : how She once assembled into the artist's presence all her court - ladies to obtain his opinion on ¡ Fig . 72. STUDY FROM THE NUDE . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna .
We ought also to relate here a pleasing anecdote : how She once assembled into the artist's presence all her court - ladies to obtain his opinion on ¡ Fig . 72. STUDY FROM THE NUDE . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna .
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their respective beauty ; and how the lady who seemed to him most worthy of the prize was the Duchess of Guéménée . The Queen would much have liked to bind so famous an artist exclusively to her side : but Rubens wrote to a friend that ...
their respective beauty ; and how the lady who seemed to him most worthy of the prize was the Duchess of Guéménée . The Queen would much have liked to bind so famous an artist exclusively to her side : but Rubens wrote to a friend that ...
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This certainly seems to have been the case with a drawing of one of the Archduchess Isabella's fascinating ladies - in - waiting ; a sketch which belongs to the artist's early period ( Fig . 76 ) : and also with another of a French ...
This certainly seems to have been the case with a drawing of one of the Archduchess Isabella's fascinating ladies - in - waiting ; a sketch which belongs to the artist's early period ( Fig . 76 ) : and also with another of a French ...
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PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY OF THE COURT OF THE INFANTA ISABELLA AT BRUSSELS . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 92. ) ...
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY OF THE COURT OF THE INFANTA ISABELLA AT BRUSSELS . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 92. ) ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Rubens Volume 9 of Monographs on artists ... IX |
| Author | Hermann Knackfuss |
| Translated by | Luise Marie Schwaab Richter |
| Publisher | Velhagen & Klasing, 1904 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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