From today on I'm wakening up my sons Albert and Nicolas myself (it's six
years now since Isabella died) because the doctor advised H�l�ne to stay
quietly now she's pregnant...
We had breakfast al together though (the maid prepared it and helped the
boys getting ready to leave for their courses at the jesuits-school).
Then I asked H�l�ne for a short walk into the garden; she enjoyed the new
blossoms...
She told me about the Dodonaeus-book on vegetation that our
gardener showed her yesterday. I know the work; it's splendidly illustrated
with copperprints,and already re-edited at the Officina Plantiniana.
We were also talking about the new child that will join our family - with the
help of God - and I proposed the name of Clara Joanna to her, in case it
would be a girl, which name she approved...
Note:
- The famous painting on which we see Rubens, H�l�ne and Nicolas visiting the pavilion in their garden, is now part of the Alte Pinakotek-collection in Munich, Germany.
- On the picture on the right you can see this pavilion as part of the museum RUBENS' HOUSE, Antwerp.
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