The Garden of Love (left portion), Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1633–35

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The Garden of Love (left portion), ca. 1633–35, Pen, brown ink, gray-green wash over traces of black chalk, touched with indigo, green, yellowish, and white paint on paper, 18 1/4 x 27 3/4 in. ( x cm) (including added strips at left and right), Drawings, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp), Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp), Rubens supervised the engravers who reproduced his paintings throughout his career. Only in the early 1630s did he turn to woodcuts, in close collaboration with Christoffel Jegher. These monumental drawings are models based on a composition also known from Rubens’s painting in the Museo del Prado, Madrid

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