Alegoría de la Fortuna y la Virtud

Two allegorical figures, Fortuna and Virtue, are seated close together in a windswept landscape under a dramatic, clouded sky. Fortuna is nearly nude with a flowing veil, reaching toward Virtue, who wears pink drapery and a helmet while holding a long spear as their hands touch in a gentle, communicative gesture. The painting exhibits Rubens’s Baroque style with fleshy, voluminous figures, warm flesh tones, and loose painterly brushwork that creates a sense of movement and emotional intensity in a diagonally composed scene.