Rubens
Subtitle: painter of sketches
By: Friso Lammertse, Alejandro Vergara
Contributors: Vergara, Alexander, 1960- author; Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
Publisher: Museo Nacional del Prado; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Madrid; Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9788484804710
Subjects: Exhibitions; Oil sketches
Other titles: Painter of sketches
Description: Of the nearly 500 oil sketches executed by Rubens over the course of his career, this exhibition includes 73 loaned from leading institutions world-wide, including the Louvre, the Hermitage, the National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum, and also from the collections of the Prado and the Boijmans (which have two of the largest holdings of this type). On display for four months in Room C of the Jerónimos Building, the sketches are shown alongside a number of prints, drawings and paintings by Rubens which provide a context for them, bringing the total number of works on display to 93.00Exhibition: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (10.04.-05.08.2018) / Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (08.09.2018-13.01.2019).
Notes: Catalog of an itinerant exhibition held at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain, April 9-August 5, 2018, and at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, September 8, 2018-January 13, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-234) and index.