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This work was probably executed with some studio assistance during the second half of the 1630s. The painting may have been blocked in by a member of the studio on the basis of a modello by Rubens, and then worked up by the master.
It has been suggested that the woman at the right of centre in black may be based on the artist\'s second wife Hélène Fourment. The composition was first engraved by Schelte à Bolswert.
Collection of Lorenzo Marana, Genoa, before 1805; bought, 1837.
Rooses 1886-92, I, pp. 139-40, no. 112
Martin 1970, pp. 133-7
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This work was probably executed with some studio assistance during the second half of the 1630s. The painting may have been blocked in by a member of the studio on the basis of a modello by Rubens, and then worked up by the master.
It has been suggested that the woman at the right of centre in black may be based on the artist\'s second wife Hélène Fourment. The composition was first engraved by Schelte à Bolswert.
Collection of Lorenzo Marana, Genoa, before 1805; bought, 1837.
Rooses 1886-92, I, pp. 139-40, no. 112
Martin 1970, pp. 133-7
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