Unknown artist of the 19th century

Lot 3081 limit € 1.500

Oil on canvas, The Love Garden, copy after the original by Peter Paul Rubens from 1632 (Museo del Prado), black frame, signs of age, approx. 130 x 198 cm, with frame approx. 147 x 205 cm; Rubens intended the painting The Love Garden, which incidentally is not a commissioned work, for his own private use, thus commemorating the happiness of his marriage to his second wife, Helene Fourment. Although his wife was more than 30 years younger than him, the marriage is said to have been extremely harmonious. Various forms of love are depicted in the painting - tender approach, ecstatic and level-headed love, motherly love through to marital bliss.