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RUBENS, Peter Paul: Portrait of a Chambermaid

🖼 Portrait of a Chambermaid, c. 1625
Sanguine with charcoal
380 × 280 cm
Vienna, Austria

Warm light caresses a young woman's face in three-quarter view, her direct gaze and subtle smile rendered with Rubens' characteristic soft brushwork. This intimate portrait of a servant challenges social hierarchies of 17th-century Flanders, elevating a chambermaid to the dignity traditionally reserved for nobility.

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