PD Image: Hélène Fourment in a fur wrap (also known as Het Pelsken, Das Pelzchen, and Porträt der Hélène Fourment), oil on wood painting (1638) by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), dimensions 176 cm x 83 cm, located at The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.
Hélène Fourment, the woman in the above portrait, inspired the voluptuous figures in several paintings of Sir Peter Paul Rubens from the 1630s; paintings such as ‘The Feast of Venus’ (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), ‘The Three Graces’ (Prado, Madrid), and ‘The Judgment of Paris’ (Prado, Madrid) in which viewers recognized Hélène Fourment in the figure of Venus. In the portrait above she even partially modeled after the classical sculptures of the Venus Pudica, such as The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus. The 16-year-old Hélène Fourment was Rubens’ wife whom the 53-year-old painter married in 1630, four years after the death of his first wife.
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