Discover Peter Paul Rubens’ 1640 drawing “Landscape with a Trees,” a quiet late masterpiece that depicts a rustic fence, winding path, and delicate stands of trees in soft monochrome, revealing the Baroque painter’s love for the Flemish countryside and his subtle mastery of atmosphere, line, and space.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s 1639 painting “Portrait of Helene Fourment with a Coach,” a richly detailed Baroque portrait that presents the artist’s young wife as an elegant lady of Antwerp society, framed by grand architecture, accompanied by a child, and set against a bustling city street with a distant coach.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s “Self-Portrait” (1639), a refined Baroque portrait in which the artist presents himself as a dignified courtly gentleman with sword, cloak, and broad-brimmed hat, using rich chiaroscuro and subtle expression to reveal his status, character, and lifelong achievements.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’ intimate 1639 family portrait “Rubens, his wife Helena Fourment, and their son Peter Paul,” a late Baroque masterpiece that places the artist, his young wife, and their toddler in a lush garden setting, blending social status, tender affection, and luminous color to celebrate domestic happiness and generational continuity.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s 1639 masterpiece “The Three Graces,” a glowing Baroque celebration of classical mythology, sensual beauty, and circular harmony, where three intertwined nude figures embody joy, abundance, and the artist’s mature ideal of feminine grace.
Discover Peter Paul Rubens’s “St. Augustine” (1639), a contemplative Baroque painting that shows the great church father on a seashore learning from a mysterious child with a shell, exploring themes of the Trinity, humility, and the limits of human reason in warm golden light.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’ 1639 “Altarpiece of St. Ildefonso (right panel),” a lavish Baroque donor portrait showing a richly robed Isabella Clara Eugenia with rosary in hand, as a veiled attendant offers a floral crown—an image that blends royal power, Marian devotion, and Rubens’ mature, psychologically nuanced style.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s 1639 painting “Martyrdom of St. Thomas,” a dramatic Baroque masterpiece where powerful executioners attack the apostle as cherubs descend from heaven with palms and wreaths, revealing the tension between brutal violence and spiritual victory.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s “Diana and Callisto” (1639), a dramatic Baroque masterpiece that shows the goddess Diana discovering her nymph Callisto’s pregnancy, surrounding them with luxurious female nudes, glittering water, and lush landscape to explore themes of chastity, shame, and sensual beauty.
Discover Peter Paul Rubens’ 1638 masterpiece “The Consequences of War,” a powerful Baroque allegory in which Mars strides toward battle despite Venus’s desperate pleas, while Furies, grieving mothers, terrified children, and broken instruments around them reveal the cultural and human devastation unleashed by war.
Discover Peter Paul Rubens’s 1638 masterpiece “Landscape with a Rainbow,” a sweeping late Baroque vision of the Flemish countryside where peasants, cattle, and glittering water lie beneath a luminous rainbow that unites stormy sky and sunlit fields.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s “Landscape with Tower” (1638), a luminous late landscape in which a solitary stone tower rises over rolling Flemish countryside beneath a golden sky, revealing Rubens’s mastery of atmosphere, depth, and poetic reflection on nature and human presence.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’ 1638 painting “Andromeda,” a dramatic Baroque mythological nude that captures the chained princess on a rocky shore, tears on her face and body stretched upward as a putto reaches for her chains and Perseus battles the sea monster in the distance.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s 1638 oil sketch “The Triumphal Car of Kallo,” a dynamic Baroque design for a ceremonial festival float that celebrates a military victory through swirling allegorical figures, ornate architecture, and a towering pyramid of trophies.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’s “The Kermesse” (1638), a sweeping Baroque panorama of a Flemish village fair where peasants dance, drink, flirt, and feast beneath trees and open sky, revealing Rubens’s masterful blend of landscape, genre painting, and joyous human community.
Explore Peter Paul Rubens’ 1638 painting “Tereus Confronted with the Head of His Son Itylus,” a powerful Baroque interpretation of Ovid’s violent myth in which Procne and Philomela reveal their revenge to the horrified king through explosive gestures, swirling drapery, and a richly detailed classical setting.
Discover Peter Paul Rubens’s 1638 drawing “Portrait of Helena Fourment,” an intimate chalk study of the artist’s young wife that reveals his working process, explores sumptuous Baroque fashion, and captures the quiet dignity of a beloved muse.
Discover Peter Paul Rubens’s “Saturn” (1638), a chilling Baroque masterpiece that shows the titan Saturn devouring his child while holding a scythe and standing beneath an hourglass, transforming a classical myth into a powerful allegory of time, tyranny, and the destruction of the future.