Directly after his return from Italy, the 32 year old Rubens married the 18 year old Isabella Brant. This double portrait, which broke new ground in portrait painting, was purportedly done shortly thereafter. Rubens did not however give up using traditional symbolism: Honeysuckle was a well known symbol for faithfulness and hands laid over one another ("dextrarum iunctio") have symbolized matrimony since ancient times. However these references are integrated into this snapshot-like scene in which middle-class contentedness, substantial affluence and strong affection are expressed.[1]
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2006-01-08 18:18 PKM 1000×1290× (1573427 bytes) [[Peter Paul Rubens]] and his first wife [[Isabella Brant]] by Rubens, 1609-1610. Image from http://www.wga.hu/ Original in Alte Pinakothek, [[Munich]].
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RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
(b. 1577, Siegen, d. 1640, Antwerpen)
The Artist and His First Wife, Isabella Brant, in the Honeysuckle Bower
1609-10
Oil on canvas, 178 x 136,5 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
In 1609 Rubens married Isabella Brant, daughter of the humanist and lawyer, Jan Brant, one of the secretaries of Antwerp. Shortly after his marriage, he lovingly portrayed himself hand-in-hand with his wife under a honeysuckle bower.
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Author: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Title: The Artist and His First Wife, Isabella Brant, in the Honeysuckle Bower
Time-line: 1601-1650
School: Flemish
Form: painting