RUBENS, Peter Paul
(b. 1577, Siegen, d. 1640, Antwerpen)

Isabella Brandt

c. 1626
Oil on canvas, 86 x 62 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Isabella, the first wife of Rubens, died in 1626. This portrait, full of warm and constructive colour, was posthumously done about 1626 after a chalk drawing of the master of c. 1623-25 (British Museum, London).