You do the math: Hélène Fourment, the second wife of Peter Paul Rubens, is reputed to have posed for 6,000 paintings. She was 16 at the time of her marriage; Rubens was 53, and he died ten years later at 63. Ten years, 6,000 paintings?
"The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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