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Retrato de Helene Fourment, 1635

Peter Paul Rubens (Flandres, 1577-1640)

óleo sobre madeira, 186 x 85 cm

Museu Calouste Gunbenkian, Lisboa

“Ela era uma mulher de encantos abundantes e maduros, maçãs do rosto rosadas e cabelos claros, com olhos tão azuis quanto o mar de verão, com linhas suaves e seios grandes.  Ela tendia para o exagero.  Pertencia àquele tipo de mulher que Rubens imortalizou à imagem de Helene Fourment.”

Em: A Writer’s Notebook, Somerset Maugham, Vintage, Kindle’s Edition. 

(Tradução  minha, Ladyce West)

‘She was a woman of ripe and abundant charms, rosy of cheek and fair of hair, with eyes as blue as the summer sea, with rounded lines and full breasts. She leaned somewhat to the overblown. She belonged to that type of woman that Rubens has set down for ever in the ravishing person of Helena Fourment.