The Artist and His First Wife, Isabella Brant, in the Honeysuckle Bower by RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel

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.