Adoration of the Magi (Rubens, Antwerp)

It was commissioned by Matthæus Yrsselius, abbot of St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, as an altarpiece, and paid for in two instalments of 750 guilders each in 1624 and 1626.

[1] The Virgin Mary is thought to have been modelled on Rubens' first wife Isabella Brant.

The painting is an important story arc in the comic book album "De Raap van Rubens" ("Rubens' apprentice") (1977) in the Belgian comic book series Suske en Wiske.

Later the man in the red cloak on the painting comes alive and steals a necklace from Lambik.

In order to find out why the man does this Lambik travels back in time, to the era of Peter Paul Rubens.