. . . . "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."@en . "The Honeysuckle Bower"@en .