Rubens' Europe

Rubens' Europe
	Part of room n° 5, called "Rubens, emulation and competition".
Date	May 22 – September 23, 2013
Venue	Louvre-Lens
Location	Lens, France
Type	Exhibition of works of art
Organised by	Blaise Ducos
Participants	127956

Rubin's Europe was a temporary exhibition at the Louvre-Lens which took place in the temporary exhibitions gallery from May 22 to September 23, 2013, following the inaugural Renaissance exhibition. The exhibition brought together 170 works by Pierre Paul Rubens and his contemporaries, the majority of which were on loan from other museums.

Preparing the exhibition took just under two years of work. Many of the works involved come from major international museums. It was open to the public for four months, with 127,956 visitors attended, a little over 20,000 less than the inaugural exhibition, which was open for three weeks less. The statistics in terms of visitors were described as a "success" and "a satisfactory result", although the word of journalists and specialists were mixed, even sometimes negative, though often celebrating the quality of the works. The entrance fee was nine euros, the reduced price was eight. Rubens' Europe was replaced by The Etruscans and the Mediterranean from December 5, 2013.

The Caisse d'Épargne Nord France Europe was a "major sponsor" of the exhibition. The Exhibition was curated by Blaise Ducos.^[1]

Opening

The opening took place on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in the afternoon, three hundred guests attending, including Daniel Percheron and Jean-Pierre Kucheida. As well as politicians, patrons or representatives of partner museums and lenders were present.^[2]

Unlike the Renaissance exhibition, whose vast majority of works came from the Louvre, most of the works for Rubens' Europe came from other museums, including those of eight countries:

National Library of France, Paris, France ^{[LLC 1]}
Fondation Custodia, Paris, France ^{[LLC 2]}
Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, France ^{[LLC 3]}
National Institute of Art History, Paris, France ^{[LLC 4]}
Bonnat-Helleu Museum, Bayonne, France^{[LLC 5]}
Palais des beaux-arts, Lille, France ^{[LLC 6]}
Chartreuse Museum, Douai, France ^{[LLC 4]}
Museum of the History of France, Versailles, France ^{[LLC 7]}
Museum of Fine Arts, Marseille, France ^{[LLC 8]}
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany^{[LLC 9]}
Maximilianmuseum, Augsburg, Germany ^{[LLC 10]}
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany ^{[LLC 10]}
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany ^{[LLC 11]}
Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, State Museums, Berlin, Germany ^{[LLC 3]}
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany ^{[LLC 11]}
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria^{[LLC 9]}
Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium^{[LLC 3]}
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Bruxelles, Belgium ^{[LLC 12]}
Rubenshuis, Antwerp, Belgium ^{[LLC 13]}
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium ^{[LLC 14]}
Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium ^{[LLC 15]}
Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium ^{[LLC 4]}
Musée du Prado, Madrid, Spain^[3]
Musée Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain^{[LLC 7]}
Palacio de Liria, Madrid, Spain^{[LLC 16]}
Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, Spain^{[LLC 17]}
es:Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, Spain^{[LLC 18]}
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, America^[3]
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, America^{[LLC 5]}
National Gallery of Art, Washington, America^{[LLC 2]}
Musée des beaux-arts de Houston, Houston, America^{[LLC 19]}
Musée des beaux-arts, Boston, America^{[LLC 3]}
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, America^{[LLC 14]}
Centre d'art britannique de Yale, New Haven, America^{[LLC 20]}
Musée national du Bargello, Florence, Italy^{[LLC 10]}
Palais Pitti, Florence, Italy^{[LLC 21]}
Musées du Capitole, Rome, Italy^{[LLC 8]}
Galerie Borghèse, Rome, Italy^{[LLC 8]}
Musée Teyler, Haarlem, the Netherlands^{[LLC 22]}
Musée Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands^{[LLC 12]}
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The UK-Uni^{[LLC 23]}
British Museum, London, The UK-Uni^{[LLC 5]}
National Gallery, London, The UK-Uni^{[LLC 7]}
Royal Collection, London, The UK-Uni^{[LLC 11]}
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, The UK-Uni^{[LLC 15]}

In total, there are fifty-three lenders, mostly museums, and some collectors. The works were in seven rooms: L'Europe des cours (rooms 1 and 2), Religious emotion and baroque faith (room No.3), Ephemeral monumentality (room No.4), Rubens, emulation and competition (room No .5), Rubens and the Republic of Letters (room No.6), and The Ways of Genius (room No.7).

Organization of the exhibit
1^re salle : L'Europe des cours.
2^e salle : L'Europe des cours.
3^e salle : Émotion religieuse et foi baroque.
4^e salle : Monumentalité éphémère.
5^e salle : Rubens, émulation et concurrence.
6^e salle : Rubens et la république des lettres.
7^e salle : Les voies du génie.

Bibliography

Arnout Balis; Blaise Ducos; Jeroen Duindam; Marc Fumaroli; Paul Huvenne; David Jaffé; Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset (2013). L'Europe de Rubens (in French). Lens & Paris: Musée du Louvre-Lens & Éditions Hazan. ISBN 978-2-36838-012-3.

References

^ Yves Portelli (21 May 2013). "Louvre-Lens: derrière chaque publication consacrée aux expositions on trouve forcément Lucie !". lavoixdunord.fr. La Voix du Nord.
^ Pauline Drouet (21 May 2013). "Louvre-Lens: Rubens et l'Europe ouvrent leurs portes au musée". lavoixdunord.fr. La Voix du Nord.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Pauline Drouet (22 May 2013). "Coup d'envoi de l'exposition "L'Europe de Rubens" qui place le Louvre-Lens sur la carte du monde des musées". lavoixdunord.fr. La Voix du Nord.

References to L'Europe de Rubens. Musée du Louvre-Lens & Éditions Hazan. 2013.

^ L'Europe de Rubens, p. 324
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External links

[R5-1] Yves Portelli (21 May 2013). "Louvre-Lens: derrière chaque publication consacrée aux expositions on trouve forcément Lucie !". lavoixdunord.fr. La Voix du Nord.

[R2-2] Pauline Drouet (21 May 2013). "Louvre-Lens: Rubens et l'Europe ouvrent leurs portes au musée". lavoixdunord.fr. La Voix du Nord.

[R6-18] Jump up to: ^a ^b Pauline Drouet (22 May 2013). "Coup d'envoi de l'exposition "L'Europe de Rubens" qui place le Louvre-Lens sur la carte du monde des musées". lavoixdunord.fr. La Voix du Nord.

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v t e Peter Paul Rubens
Paintings and drawings	The Descent from the Cross (Siegen; 1600–1602) Leda and the Swan (1601, 1602) The Deposition (1602) Self-Portrait in a Circle of Friends from Mantua (1602–1605) Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma (1603) Portrait of a Young Woman (1603) Hercules and Omphale (1603) Heraclitus and Democritus (1603) Virgin and Child (c. 1604) The Fall of Phaeton (c. 1604/1605) The Baptism of Christ (1604–1605) The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity (1604–1605) Transfiguration (1604–1605) The Circumcision (1605) Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria (1606) Portrait of Maria di Antonio Serra (1606) Portrait of a Noblewoman with an Attendant (1606) Portrait of Giovanni Carlo Doria on Horseback (1606) Madonna della Vallicella (1606–1608) Susanna and the Elders (1607) The Head of Saint John the Baptist Presented to Salome (c. 1609) Adoration of the Magi (Madrid; 1609 and 1628–29) Samson and Delilah (1609–1610) Honeysuckle Bower (1609–1610) Coronation of the Virgin (1609–1611) Juno and Argus (1610) Raising of the Cross (1610–1611) Conversion of Saint Paul (London; 1610–1612) Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1611) Venus Frigida (1611) Prometheus Bound (1611–1612) The Four Philosophers (1611–1612) Antwerp Resurrection (1611–1612) Visitation (c. 1611–1615) Roman Charity (1612) Ecce Homo (1612) Descent from the Cross (Antwerp; 1612–1614) Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit (Rotterdam; 1612–1614) Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit (Cambridge; c. 1614) The Tribute Money (1612–1614) The Defeat of Sennacherib (1612–1614) The Four Continents (1610s) Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter (1612–1614) Portrait of a Commander (1613) The Crowning of the Virtuous Hero (1613–1614) The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (1613–1615) The Death of Adonis (1614) Venus and Adonis (1614) St Sebastian (c. 1614) The Virgin Mary and Saint Francis Saving the World from Christ's Anger (c. 1614) Madonna della Cesta (1615) Ixion, King of the Lapiths, Deceived by Juno, Who He Wished to Seduce (1615) Daniel in the Lions' Den (1615) Bacchanalia (c. 1615) A Statue of Ceres (c. 1615) The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt (1615–1616) The Tiger Hunt (1615–1616) Theodosius and Saint Ambrose (1615–1616) The Wild Boar Hunt (1615–1617) Florence Resurrection (1616) The Virgin and Child Surrounded by the Holy Innocents (1616) Erichthonius Discovered by the Daughters of Cecrops (c. 1616) The Wolf and Fox Hunt (c. 1616) The Lion and Leopard Hunt (c. 1616) Romulus and Remus (1615–1616) Miracles of St. Francis Xavier (1616–1617) Saint Stephen Triptych (1616–1617) Two Women with a Candle (1616–1617) Descent from the Cross (Lille; 1616–1617) The Meeting Between Abraham and Melchizedek (1616–1617) Christ and the Penitent Sinners (1617) Mars and Rhea Silvia (1617) The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (1617) The Great Last Judgement (1617) A Bearded Man (c. 1617–18) Adoration of the Magi (Lyon; 1617–1618) The Five Senses (1617–1618) Two Satyrs (1618) Medusa (1618) The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (c. 1618) Christ Triumphant over Sin and Death (c. 1618) The Prodigal Son (1618) The Union of Earth and Water (c. 1618) Tigress with Her Cubs (attributed; 1618) Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna (c. 1618–1620) Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee (1618–1620) The Wild Boar Hunt (1618–1620) St Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy (1619–1620) The Small Last Judgement (1619) Conversion of Saint Paul (1620s) The Fall of the Damned (c. 1620) Landscape with Philemon and Baucis (c. 1620) Portrait of a Young Man in Armor (c. 1620) Saint George and the Dragon (c. 1620) Perseus Freeing Andromeda (1620) Saints Dominic and Francis Saving the World from Christ's Anger (1620) The Rape of Orithyia by Boreas (1620) Christ on the Cross (1620) The Three Graces (Florence; 1620–1623) Isabella Brant (c. 1621) The Lion Hunt (1621) Marie de' Medici cycle (1621–1630) Portrait of Susanna Lunden (1622) Perseus and Andromeda (c. 1622) The History of Constantine (1622–1625) Self-Portrait (1623) The Conversion of Saint Bavo (1623–1624) Diana and Her Nymphs Leaving for the Hunt (1623–1624) Adoration of the Magi (Antwerp; 1624) The Reconciliation of Esau and Jacob (1624) Christ Appointing Saint Roch as Patron Saint of Plague Victims (1623–1626) Portrait of Infante Isabella Clara Eugenia (1625) Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (c. 1625) Assumption of the Virgin (Antwerp; 1625–1626) Angelica and the Hermit (c. 1626–1628) Henry IV at the Battle of Ivry (1627) The Triumphal Entry of Henry IV into Paris (1627) The Annunciation (1627–1628) The Fall of Man (1628–1629) The Rape of Europa (1628–1629) Minerva Protecting Peace from Mars (1629–1630) Cimon and Pero (1630) Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1630) The Crowning of Saint Catherine (1631) The Ildefonso Altarpiece (1630–1631) Last Supper (1630–1631) Odysseus on the Island of the Phaecians (1630–1635) The Finding of Erichthonius (1632–1634) The Rainbow Landscape (Saint Petersburg; 1632–1635) The Garden of Love (c. 1633) Adoration of the Magi (Cambridge; 1634) Bathsheba at the Fountain (c. 1635) The Dance of the Villagers (1635) Helena Fourment with Her Son Frans (1635) Venus and Adonis (New York; 1635) The Triumph of the Church (1635) The Feast of Venus (1635–1636) Deucalion and Pyrrha (1636–1637) The Feast of Herod (1635–1638) The Village Fête (1635–1638) Mercury and Argus (1635–1638) Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye (c. 1636) Helena Fourment with Children (1636) A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning (1636) Saturn (1636) The Rainbow Landscape (London; 1636) Pallas and Arachne (1636–1637) Het Pelsken (1636–1638) Assumption of the Virgin (Vienna; c. 1637) The Birth of the Milky Way (c. 1637) Consequences of War (c. 1638) Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides / Deianira Listens to Fame (1638) The Three Graces (Madrid; 1636–1638) The Rape of Ganymede (1636–1638) Diana and Callisto (1637–1638) Helena Fourment with a Carriage (1638) Self-Portrait (Vienna; 1638–1639) Bacchus (1638–1640) The Rape of the Sabine Women (1639–1640) The Peasants Returning From The Fields (1640) The Rainbow Landscape (Munich; 1640) Judgment of Paris (various)
Tapestries	The History of Constantine (1622–1640) (with Pietro da Cortona)
Books	Palazzi di Genova (1622)
Museums	Rubenshuis
People	Rubens family Isabella Brant (first wife) Helena Fourment (second wife) Nicolaas Rubens, Lord of Rameyen (son) Albert Rubens (son) Jan Rubens (father) Maria Pypelinckx (mother) Philip Rubens (brother) Tobias Verhaecht (teacher) Adam van Noort (teacher) Otto van Veen (teacher) Nicolaas Rockox (friend)
Related	Poussinists and Rubenists Rubens (1977 film) Rubenesque Rubens' Europe (exhibition)