Helena Fourment
date: label: date made
content: 1783
name: label: delineator
content: Farington, George
label: publisher
content: Boydell, John
label: engraver
content: Sailliar, Louis
label: original artist
content: Rubens, Peter Paul
notes: label: Description
content: Stipple engraving after painting formerly attributed to Anthony van Dyck, now considered to be by Peter Paul Rubens, once in the Cabinet at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Originally in the Hermitage Palace, the painting was sold about 1930 and is now in the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. SI Secretary's Library stamp embossed below image (trimmed; only partial stamp remains).
label: Description
content: Pencil inscription on verso reads: "Should be Helena Fourment by Rubens," possibly in Jacob Kainen's hand.
label: Description
content: Full-length portrait long considered to be of Rubens' second wife Helena Fourment (1614-1673), although the identity of the sitter is now in some dispute.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Women
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Marsh Collection
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Marsh Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0534.03.38
label: accession number
content: 1978.0534
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0534.03.38
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: stipple engraving
label: Object Type
content: Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 58.5 cm x 39 cm; 23 1/32 in x 15 11/32 in