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The Rainbow Landscape

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)

The Wallace Collection

The Rainbow Landscape

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In 1635 the 58-year-old Rubens bought the château of Het Steen, situated between Brussels and Antwerp. Soon afterwards he painted a view of the château (National Gallery, London) and this companion piece which shows the surrounding countryside. The two pictures celebrate Rubens’s deep love for the landscape of Brabant and are the greatest landscapes he painted. 'The Rainbow Landscape', however, is not a simple naturalistic record. Rather it recreates a vision of his native countryside in order to convey not just what he saw, but also what he thought and felt about the land and Man’s relationship to it. Thus the rainbow recalls the covenant made between God and Man after the Flood and the harvest can be seen as Man’s just reward for his labours.

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Title

The Rainbow Landscape

Date

c.1636

Medium

oil on oak panel

Measurements

H 135.6 x W 235 cm

Accession number

P63

Acquisition method

acquired by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, 1856; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897

Work type

Painting

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Hertford House, Manchester Square, London, Greater London W1U 3BN England

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Peter Paul Rubens

1577–1640

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