Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Isabella Brant

Peter Paul RubensLinkedCulture matchlcp-e595aa3a83f9

Date: c. 1620–25
Medium: oil on wood
Culture: Flanders
Department: European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 125247

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Isabella Brant was Rubens’s first wife. He painted her many times in many different ways before she died at the age of 35 (she is a model for a nymph in the other work by Rubens in this room). This intimate portrait, painted at least five years before her death, suggests the close relationship between the painter and sitter through the warm palette, the luscious brushstrokes, and her lively expression. First, Rubens painted Isabella’s face, then at a later date he added hands.

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Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Provenance: 1947-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | 1947: Rosenberg and Stiebel and Pinakos, Inc./Rudolf Heinemann, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1930-1947: Heirs of Marcus Kappel, sold to Rosenberg and Stiebel with Pinakos, Inc./Rudolf Heinemann | 1930: (Kappel estate sale, Paul Cassirer und Hugo Helbing, Berlin, Nov. 25, 1930, no. 16, withdrawn) | 1919-1930: Estate of Marcus Kappel | 1914-1919: Marcus Kappel [1839-1919], Berlin | 1914: (Hugh Blaker [1873–1936], Old Isleworth, Middlesex, England, sold to Marcus Kappel | 1914: (Glanusk sale, Sotheby's, London, April 29, 1914, no. 88, sold to Hugh Blaker) | 1914: Lord Glanusk