From 10/15/2024 to 2/16/2025
Rubens was the most successful painter in Europe during the first half of the 17th century, and also one of the most productive - around 1,500 of his works still survive. This exhibition explores the way in which he collaborated with the numerous assistants who worked in his workshop. Organised in collaboration with the Community of Madrid, the exhibition is made up of more than 30 works that include paintings made by the master, others painted by his assistants and others made with varying degrees of collaboration between them.
The title Rubens' Studio refers to a way of working and also to a physical place: the workshop in Antwerp where the painter produced his paintings. The exhibition will also include a staging of the workshop, made up of easels, canvases, paints, brushes, palettes, sticks and other materials and objects (some from the 17th century, others modern recreations), as well as books, old busts and other items that will evoke Rubens' collection and interests.
1. Allegory of painting
Jan Brueghel the Younger (after Jan Brueghel the Elder and Frans Francken the Younger)
Oil on copper
c. 1625-30
Courtesy of the JK Art Foundation
2. Hélène Fourment with her children Clara-Johanna and Frans
Peter Paul Rubens
Oil on board
c. 1636
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures
3rd. Anne of Austria, Queen of France
Peter Paul Rubens
Oil on canvas
c. 1622
Madrid, Prado National Museum
3b . Anne of Austria, Queen of France
Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
Oil on canvas
c. 1622-25
Vienna, private collection
4. Mercury and Argus
Peter Paul Rubens and workshop
Oil on canvas
1636-39
Madrid, Prado National Museum
5. The death of the consul Decius
Peter Paul Rubens and workshop
Oil on board
1616-17
Madrid, Prado National Museum
6. Philopomenes discovered
Pedro Pablo Rubens and Frans Snyders
Oil on canvas
c. 1609-10
Madrid, Prado National Museum
7. Achilles discovered by Odysseus and Diomedes
Peter Paul Rubens and workshop (Anton van Dyck?)
Oil on canvas
c. 1617-18
Madrid, Prado National Museum
Location:
Name of the place: National Prado Museum
Phone number: +34913302800
E-mail: museo.nacional@museodelprado.es
Schedule:
Monday to Saturday: 10.00 – 20.00 h
Sundays and holidays: 10.00 – 19.00 h
January 6, December 24 and 31: 10:00 – 14:00 h
(Access up to 30 minutes before closing time. Evacuation from the rooms 10 minutes before closing time).
CLOSED January 1, May 1 and December 25
Follow up: