Old Master antique 18th century Flemish painting oak panel after Rubens original

According to Sotheby's London old master specialists, this painting is an ANTIQUE copy of the major museum work "Stormy Landscape with Philemon and Baucis" by artist SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640), one of the major figures in European art history. The original is presently in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. The painting is in oil on joined old oak panels, 17 1/2" by 23 1/4", circa 1700's, featuring an extensive fantasy landscape including violent storm and flood, overwhelming the religious, allegorical, mythological appearing human figures in the scene. Note the photos of the reverse, including the old inked numbers and the grain of the very old oak panels, as well as the curvature of those panels. The painting was cleaned before I acquired it, perhaps a bit too vigorously; the surface is rather smooth. Under UV light, there is inpainting in some of the figures at right, in the trees, the white foam of the river, and the village at left center. Overall the painting is very decorative and should appeal to anyone furnishing an interior with classical antiques. It does need a wide antique frame that would be more complementary, the present frame being completely modern and functional only. The panel has warped over time and the present frame was geared to fit that curvature. The painting came out of a Canadian collection near Toronto 25 years ago.