At age 53, Rubens married the young Hélène Fourment, who had already served as the model for several of his works. In the two paintings at the Louvre, she appears in superb apparel, which suggestively hides the splendor of her voluptuous figure. This program examines two portraits of Hélène Fourment, and projects from the two paintings what the others, the nudes which she destroyed, might have looked like. (32 minutes)

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