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The Honeysuckle Bower (ca. 1609) is a self-portrait of the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens and his first wife Isabella Brant. They wed on 3 October 1609 in St. Michael’s Abbey Antwerp shortly after he had returned to the city after eight years in Italy.The painting is a full-length double portrait of the couple seated in a bower (wikt) of honeysuckle.
