The head and chest of a man with pale pink skin, a honey-blond beard, and curly, mahogany-brown hair around a receding hairline fills this vertical portrait painting. His body and head are tipped to our left and he looks at or toward us with olive-green eyes. He has a long, pointed nose with lines around the nostrils leading down to his sweeping mustache. His soft beard below is trimmed to a point. His full, salmon-pink lips are closed. Faint sage green shades the inner corners of his eyes and the dips at his temples, beneath a shiny, balding head. His brown locks float around his face as if…
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Peter Paul Rubens

painter Anonymous Artist

Studio of related artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640)

c. 1620

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 41.3 x 33.7 cm (16 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Timken Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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