A seated woman with an infant on her lap and three children are clustered on a terrace overlooking green hills and a body of water in this square painting. They all have pale skin with flushed cheeks. The group is centered in the composition, and the woman sits to our left, facing our right, almost in profile. The wooden chair is upholstered in scarlet-red fabric and a large slate-blue bird perches on the backrest. Gold-edged, red drapery hangs behind the woman, suspended from stone columns on either side of her. The woman’s brown hair is covered by a frilly, silvery-gray cap with a matching…
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Deborah Kip, Wife of Sir Balthasar Gerbier, and Her Children

painter Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640)

and Possibly painter Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593 - 1678)

1629/1630, reworked probably mid 1640s

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 165.8 x 177.8 cm (65 1/4 x 70 in.) ; framed: 200.34 x 211.14 x 14.61 cm (78 7/8 x 83 1/8 x 5 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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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