Peter Paul Rubens Paintings – A Flemish Artist, Painter – 400 Works of Art (HD)
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens’s highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.

Marie de’ Medici Cycle and diplomatic missions (1621–1630)

In 1621, the Queen Mother of France, Marie de’ Medici, commissioned Rubens to paint two large allegorical cycles celebrating her life and the life of her late husband, Henry IV, for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. The Marie de’ Medici cycle (now in the Louvre) was installed in 1625, and although he began work on the second series it was never completed. Marie was exiled from France in 1630 by her son, Louis XIII, and died in 1642 in the same house in Cologne where Rubens had lived as a child.

Early paintings

Portrait of a Young Woman with a Rosary, 1609–10, oil on wood, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Venus at the Mirror, 1613–14, oil-painting, private collection
Diana Returning from Hunt, 1615, oil on canvas, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, c. 1617, oil on canvas, Alte Pinakothek

Historical portraits

Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria, 1606
Portrait of King Philip IV of Spain, c. 1628/1629
Portrait of Elisabeth of France. 1628, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna
Portrait of Ambrogio Spinola, c. 1627 National Gallery in Prague

Landscapes

Landscape with the Ruins of Mount Palatine in Rome, 1615
Miracle of Saint Hubert, painted together with Jan Bruegel, 1617
Landscape with Milkmaids and Cattle, 1618
The Château Het Steen with Hunter, c. 1635–1638 (National Gallery, London)

Mythological

Venus and Adonis
Jupiter and Callisto, 1613, Museumslandschaft of Hesse in Kassel
Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism, 1618–1630, by Rubens and Frans Snyders, inspired by Pythagoras’s speech in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Royal Collection.

Nude

Susanna and the Elders, 1608
Ermit and sleeping Angelica, 1628
Venus, Cupid, Baccchus and Ceres, 1612
The Three Graces, 1635, Prado
Susanna and the elders, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

Helena Fourment and related pictures

Rubens with Hélène Fourment and their son Peter Paul, 1639, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Helena Fourment in Wedding Dress, detail, the artist’s second wife, c. 1630, now in the Alte Pinakothek
Bathsheba at the Fountain, 1635
Pastoral Scene, 1636

Drawings

The Night, 1601–1603, black chalk and gouache on paper (after Michelangelo), Louvre-Lens
Man in Korean Costume, c. 1617, black chalk with touches of red chalk, J. Paul Getty Museum
Peter Paul Rubens (possibly his self-portrait), c. 1620s
Young Woman with Folded Hands, c. 1629–30, red and black chalk, heightened with white, Boijmans Van Beuningen
Study of Three Women (Psyche and her sisters), c. 1635, sanguine and ink on paper, Warsaw University Library
Study for a St. Mary Magdalen, date unknown, British Museum