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Last week the villagers had reason to be sorry. The Belper painting, up for sale again, and catalogued as Rubens' The Carrying of the Cross, brought a tidy $14,000 at a London auction.
Lady Belper admitted she hadn't known it was a Rubens. "Of course, my husband knew," she explained. "But he's got so many lovely paintings I can't quite remember what they are."
¶ The Wildenstein Galleries presented 35 canvases (TIME, March 12) by one of the greatest artists who ever lived, Peter Paul Rubens.
When the breath seems short and the blood thin, as in a few of the pictures on show last week, the chances are that they are factory products sketched by Rubens, painted by an assistant and then retouched and signed by the master's hand. He was an art...
Rubens did best when he stood alone before a vast canvas; his finest works are huge mythological scenes filled with cream-and-honey nudes, and Biblical illustrations done on an equally grand and almost equally sensuous scale. But he could also put his passion for people into a small portrait...