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Het Pelsken
Het Pelsken (literally "The Fur" or "The Pelt") is a 1638 portrait by Peter Paul Rubens of his second wife Helena Fourment getting out of the bath. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
External links.
- http://www.wga.hu/html_m/r/rubens/42portra/07furcoa.html
include early works such as his "Portrait of Brigida Spinola-Doria" (1606, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), paintings of his wives (the "Honeysuckle Bower" and "Het Pelsken"), and numerous portraits of friends and nobility. He also exerted a strong influence on Baroque portraiture through his student Anthony van Dyck. Van Dyck became court painter for Charles I of England and was influential on subsequent English portraiture. Other successful portraitists include Cornelis de Vos and Jacob Jordaens. Although most Flemish