A woman at the bath, another woman washing her right foot and an old woman behind her holding her clothes
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 4 15/16 × 3 1/8 in. (12.5 × 8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.7005
Tags
Art Historical Context
This enchanting engraving, titled *A Woman at the Bath, Another Woman Washing Right Foot and an Old Behind Her Holding Her Clothes captures a tender moment of female intimacy from 1716. Created by French engraver Louis Surug after an original composition by the Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, measures a intimate 4 15/16 × 3 1/8 inches, perfect for collectors' albums. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it exemplifies how 18th-century printmakers popularized Rubens' vibrant works through precise reproductions. Rubens, a Flemish artist renowned for his e...
About the Artist
Peter Paul Rubens|Louis Surugue · 1577–1640
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) stands as the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition and the greatest exponent of Baroque painting's dynamism, vitality, and sensuous exuberance. Born in Siegen, Westphalia, and raised in Antwerp, Rubens received a humanist education studying Latin and classical literature before pursuing artistic training under three masters: Tobias Verhaecht, Adam ...