Matthew Hargraves on “Peace Embracing Plenty”

Art in Context
January 20, 2012

 

Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Peace Embracing Plenty (detail), between 1633 and 1634, oil on panel, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Matthew Hargraves, Associate Curator and Head of Collections Information and Access at the Yale Center for British Art (now Chief Curator of Art Collections), discusses the painting Peace Embracing Plenty (1633–34) by Sir Peter Paul Rubens.