It was last shown in public in 1965. In 2020, Rubens’ “Portrait of a Young Woman, Half-Length, Holding a Chain” sold for almost 4 million pounds ($5.4 million) at Christie’s in London.

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Elsewhere, Johannes Fijt pictures a dog "bristling across a page of tinted watercolour as if in pursuit of a disappearing cat", while Rubens thrills with two dozen pictures, among them a portrait ...