Custodian guards the painting 'Portrait of Helena Fourment' by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1630-1632) displayed in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Museu Calouste Gulbenkian) in Lisbon, Portugal. The painting was sold by the Bolsheviks from the collection of the Hermitage Museum (then Leningrad, USSR, now Saint Petersburg, Russia) for 55,000 pounds to British businessman and philanthropist Calouste Gulbenkian in May 1930.

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