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Charlotte Mason Picture Study Aid Peter Paul Rubens

Summer: Peasants Going to Market

c. 1718
Oil on canvas
143.4 x 222.9 cm
Royal Collection Trust, Buckingham
Palace, London

KEY TOPICS:

! The scene depicts farmers making their way along country roads with horses and carts to

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sell their goods at the morning market in the town seen in the middle distance.
! In the center of the piece is a large flock of sheep that gets smaller and smaller as they make

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their way into the distance.
! This piece is part of a series of paintings Rubens did covering each of the seasons. “Winter”

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(which depicts the interior of a barn) hangs next to this work in Buckingham Palace.

5 (Royal Collection Trust)
6 (Knackfuss)

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