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In Leo von Klenze's project this room in the New Hermitage
was allotted to the display of Dutch and Flemish painting. Today it
contains works by the great Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640).
The collection of his works, including 22 paintings and 19 sketches,
covers all periods of the artist's career. Rubens presents himself
as a superb portraitist, a master of multi-figure compositions, an
animal painter and a genius at landscape and still life. Among the
masterpieces here are Perseus and Andromeda, Bacchus and Portrait
of a Lady-in-Waiting to the Infanta Isabella. The best-known canvases
include The Union of Earth and Water, The Descent from the Cross
and The Stone Haulers. |
