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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

  • News Items : Free Internet Access for Much of the Corpus Rubenianum 05/03/2014

    Le Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, known as the Corpus Rubenianum or even simply the Rubenianum was launched in 1963 after the acquisition of the archives and library belonging to the art historian Jacob Burchard. This monumental editorial (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • Exhibitions : Frans Hals. Eye to Eye with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian 19/04/2013

    Comparing is not enough. The Haarlem exhibition on Frans Hals, an "adoptive" native son, which attempts to associate the artist with 16th century Venetian painting and also with some of his contemporaries, is a perfect illustration of these (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Marguerite Yourcenar and Flemish Painting 20/12/2012

    On the 25th anniversary of Marguerite Yourcenar's death, two neigboring institutions, the Musée départemental de Flandre, in Cassel, and the Villa départemental Marguerite Yourcenar in Saint Jans Cappel, near Bailleul, are collaborating in the (...)

    Lire la suite par Julie Demarle

  • Exhibitions : Versailles and the Antique 19/12/2012

    With over 200 works - paintings, sculptures, drawings, tapestries, art objects, furniture - the exhibition evokes in a magnificent manner the fascination and the presence of the Antique at Versailles at the time of Louis XIV. This is a (...)

    Lire la suite par Sylvie Blin

  • Art Market : Salon du Dessin 2012 31/03/2012

    Endowed, as usual, with very beautiful sheets many of which in fact have not been viewed (at least in our case) often, the Salon du Dessin 2012 for once reflects a drawback : the number of galleries and drawings from the second half of the 20th (...)

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  • News Items : BRAFA 2012 in Brussels 23/01/2012

    The BRAFA which opened on 20 January in Brussels continues to improve in quality every year. True, old master paintings and drawings are, regrettably, fewer in number but this is compensated by the abundance of sculptures and, of course, art (...)

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  • News Items : A double-sided drawing by Rubens acquired by the Musées Royaux in Brussels 21/02/2011

    21/2/11 – Acquisition – Brussels, Musées Royaux – On 26 January, the Musées Royaux in Brussels acquired a double-sided drawing by Rubens (ill. 1 and 2) with four sketches, at Christie’s New York for the expensive price of $218,500 (including charges). (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Rubens, Poussin et les peintres du XVIIe siècle 18/10/2010

    The exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André will no doubt confuse more than one art historian for its subject. In fact, it is so original that it has us quite perplexed. The exhibition’s main goal is “to provide an account of the importance of the (...)

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  • News Items : A Rubens painting resurfaces at auction in London 02/05/2010

    On Wednesday, 28 April in London at Bonhams Knightsbridge, an oil on panel representing a portrait of a bearded man in armor, presented as “Style of Rubens, 19th century” and with a modest estimate of 1,000 to 2,000 pounds soared to the final (...)

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  • Publications : Catalogue of Flemish and Dutch paintings at the Louvre 01/05/2010

    The Catalogue des peintures flamandes et hollandaises du musée du Louvre is more than just a tool for accessing 1,130 paintings. This is not only a list (as is still often the case for many museum catalogues), the publication in fact provides an (...)

    Lire la suite par Denis Coekelberghs

  • Exhibitions : Réalités d’un monde. Peintures flamandes et hollandaises du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg 20/04/2009

    More and more provincial museums are focusing on their collections and publishing catalogues raisonnés often with an accompanying exhibition. The Italian paintings at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg had already been the subject of several (...)

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  • News Items : The Tate finally purchases Rubens study for Banqueting Hall 10/10/2008

    Our readers may remember that the Tate Gallery had attempted to save Rubens study for Banqueting Hall from being exported after having been exhibited at the National Gallery since 1981

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  • News Items : A study ascribed to Rubens stolen in Poitiers 28/11/2007

    Ascribed to (or after) Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) The Allegory of Good Government Oil on panel - 26 x 21 cm Poitiers, Musée Rupert de Chièvres (work stolen late November 2007) Photo : Ch. Vignaud / Musées de la ville de Poitiers 28/11/2007 — (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner