Antique Oil Painting Portrait on Board, After Rubens' Young Wife, Helena Fourment pouch beautifully crafted with the most

beautifully crafted with the most elaborate and opulent silver inlays ever

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Antique Oil Painting Portrait on Board, After Rubens' Young Wife, Helena Fourment pouch beautifully crafted with the mostHelena Fourment or Hlne Fourment (11 April 1614 15 July 1673) was the second wife of Flemish Baroque painter, Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens painted her regularly through their marriage, and this painting is done "aprs", or after one of those early paintings. When you visit the Louvre or other museums and see artists with easel set up, doing their renditions of the Old Masters, this is what results. A beautifully interpreted capture of Helena, a thrill of