In 1620, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French antiquary, discovered a large Roman cameo in the Treasury of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, in which he recognized a number of Roman Imperial portraits, now generally thought to represent Germanicus taking leave of his parents, the Emperor Tiberius and his mother, Livia, with other members of the Julio-Claudian family, past and present. In 1621, Peiresc suggested to Rubens to paint this.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Peter_Paul_Rubens" class="extiw" title="w:en:Peter Paul Rubens"><span title="Flemish painter (1577-1640)">Peter Paul Rubens</span></a>
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between circa 1625 and circa 1626 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1626-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
<span class="int-own-work">Self-photographed</span>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jean-Pol_GRANDMONT" title="User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT">User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT</a> (2013)