LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: Rubens

Mulay Ahmad about 1609 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577–1640 Dimensions: 99.7 x 71.5 cm (39 1/4 x 28 1/8 in.) Medium or Technique: Oil on panel Classification: Paintings Type: Portrait - Single - Male Accession Number: 40.2 This painting is a free copy after a lost portrait by Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (1500– 1559) that was probably in Rubens's own collection. Therefore, Mulay Ahmad had died many years before Rubens painted him. Though in fact a brutal leader, the Berber King of Tunis was for Rubens an idealized, exotic champion of Christianity whose image later served as a model for the Black King in several of Rubens's images of the Adoration of the Magi. Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/mulay-ahmad-32728

Mulay Ahmad about 1609 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577–1640 Dimensions: 99.7 x 71.5 cm (39 1/4 x 28 1/8 in.) Medium or Technique: Oil on panel Classification: Paintings Type: Portrait - Single - Male Accession Number: 40.2 This painting is a free copy after a lost portrait by Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (1500– 1559) that was probably in Rubens's own collection. Therefore, Mulay Ahmad had died many years before Rubens painted him. Though in fact a brutal leader, the Berber King of Tunis was for Rubens an idealized, exotic champion of Christianity whose image later served as a model for the Black King in several of Rubens's images of the Adoration of the Magi. Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/mulay-ahmad-32728