Susanna Fourment wearing a black hat with white feathers. Mixed meethod engraving by R. Cooper, 1823, after Sir P.P. Rubens.

  • Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.
Date:
June 5th 1823
Reference:
2863713i
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Description

Thought to portray Susanna Fourment, subsequently the sister-in-law of Peter Paul Rubens. Her hat is referred to in the lettering as a straw hat, though it is not made of straw. In Flemish it was called a "Spaansch hoodje" (Spanish hat)--Rosenberg. loc. cit. There is an engraved trompe l'oeil border

Publication/Creation

[London] (90 Cheapside & 8 Pall Mall) : Hurst Robinson & Co., June 5th 1823.

Physical description

1 print : etching, engraving and stipple ; platemark 44.2 x 34 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Le chapeau de paille. P.P. Rubens. R. Cooper sculp.t, 9 Upper Pratt Place, Camden Town

References note

A. Rosenberg, P.P. Rubens: des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart 1906, pp. 224 and 475

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2863713i

Reproduction note

After a painting in the same direction acquired by Sir Robert Peel from the sitter's family in the year in which this print was published (1823), and subsequently in the National Gallery, London--Rosenberg. loc. cit.

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