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RUBENS, Peter Paul: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1628-30
Oil on canvas
Antwerp, Belgium

Confident brushwork captures a prosperous gentleman in rich fabrics and jewels, rendered with warm ochres and deep shadows. This self-portrait asserts Rubens' status as a successful court painter and humanist scholar in early 17th-century Flanders.

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E. H. Gombrich
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