The head and chest of a man with pale pink skin, a honey-blond beard, and curly, mahogany-brown hair around a receding hairline fills this vertical portrait painting.

Peter Paul Rubens

Studio of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)

Date
c. 1620
Medium
oil on panel
Size
16¼ × 13¼ in (41.3 × 33.7 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1960.6.33. See the museum’s record
Credit
Timken Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 2 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Peter Paul Rubens: a 16 × 20 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.