Shown from the shoulders up, a man and woman face our left in profile against a dark background in this vertical portrait painting. The woman is situated closer to us so she overlaps the man, whose profile is shifted to our left. The woman’s eye we can see is brown and she looks ahead from under a gently arched eyebrow. She has a pale skin with faintly blushed cheeks, a straight nose, and her pink lips are closed. Her reddish-gold hair is pulled back into a loose knot at the base of her head, and tendrils fall down her neck. Her hair is braided across the crown of her head, which is…
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Agrippina and Germanicus

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640)

c. 1614

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 66.4 × 57 cm (26 1/8 × 22 7/16 in.) ; framed: 95.25 × 86 × 9.53 cm (37 1/2 × 33 7/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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