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The ''Self-portrait'' is an Catalogue entry, KHM
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Catalogue entry, KHM
1639 paintings Portraits by Peter Paul Rubens Paintings in the Kunsthistorisches Museum {{1630s-painting-stub
The ''Self-portrait'' is an oil
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on canvas
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by Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of clas ...
measuring 109.5 cm by 85 cm and dating to between 1638 and 1639. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum
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in Vienna
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. It is a courtly portrait
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in style (such as showing the sword, glove and column), but shows more attention to facial detail than it was usual in a portrait of that kind./ref>
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Catalogue entry, KHM
1639 paintings Portraits by Peter Paul Rubens Paintings in the Kunsthistorisches Museum {{1630s-painting-stub