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Portrait of Peter Paul Rubens
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
During his career, Wenceslaus Hollar etched nearly 500 portraits. Most of them were based on paintings by artists such as Holbein and Van Dyck. For his portrait of Rubens, however, Hollar did not look at Rubens' painted self-portrait, but at an engraved copy. The bust and caption were rendered minutely and to the letter. The lavish decorative border was Hollar's own invention.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePortrait of Peter Paul Rubens. 1644 - 1652. Wenceslaus Hollar. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
