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About the Artwork
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.
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Inc./Rudolf Heinemann 1930: (Kappel estate sale, Paul Cassirer und Hugo Helbing, Berlin, Nov. 25, 1930, no. 16, withdrawn) 1919-1930: Estate of Marcus Kappel 1914-1919: Marcus Kappel [1839-1919], Berlin 1914: (Hugh Blaker [1873–1936], Old Isleworth, Middlesex, England, sold to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
Exhibition history
Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949). Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). Peter Paul Rubens. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp (organizer) (June 28-October 2, 1977). Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). Rubens. Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France (organizer) (March 6-June 14, 2004). Rubens in Private. Rubenshuis, Antwerpen, Belgium (organizer) (March 28-June 28, 2015). The Early Celebrity of Peter Paul Rubens. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (April 6-September 2, 2019); Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (October 5, 2019-January 5, 2020).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)
- Date
- c. 1620–25
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 83 x 73.5 x 9 cm (32 11/16 x 28 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 53 x 46 cm (20 7/8 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1947.207
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009175
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