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| Peter Paul Rubens art links |
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into the following different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
King James the First Uniting England and Scotland, 1632-33
Peter Paul Rubens at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Peter Paul Rubens
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Berlin
Study with Hands and Two Male Heads, ca.1613
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
39 works by Rubens
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of the Daughter of Balthasar Gerbier d'Ouvilly, chalk, 1629
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
20 works online by Rubens
Kress Foundation Collection NEW!
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
7 paintings online in high resolution
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
6 paintings online
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
11 zoomable works online
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
9 zoomable works online
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
15 zoomable works online
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Boreas Abducts Oreithya, ca.1615 (Zoom)
The Circumcision, 1605 (Zoom)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Click on "List of Works" and "Rubens as model" for many zoomable works
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Médicis, 1621-25
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Village Fete, 1635-38
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Lamentation over Christ, by either Rubens or Otto van Veen
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Baptism of Christ, black chalk drawing, 1604-5
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Young woman holding a fan, drawing, 1630-33
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Hélène Fourment with a Carriage, ca.1639
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
18 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW!
Page forward for numerous works on paper by Rubens
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (with Jan Brueghel)
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
4 paintings online
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague NEW!
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Peter Paul Rubens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, ca.1635
Wolf and Fox Hunt, ca.1615-21
Venus and Adonis, 1630s
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
(Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
19 works by Peter Paul Rubens
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
7 works
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
The Holy Family with St. Anne, ca.1635
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum, Madrid
76 works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Entombment, ca.1615
Cimon and Pero, ca.1630
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
6 works by Peter Paul Rubens online
Rubens House, Antwerp, Belgium
Information on the artist and a few works from the collection
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Hero and Leander
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
A Roman Couple
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
The Judgment of Paris
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
2 works
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Finding of Erichthonius
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Head of an Old Man, drawing
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch) NEW!
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Hygieia, Goddess of Health, Feeding the Serpent, chalk drawing, ca.1614-15
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Constantine investing his son Crispus with command of the fleet
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW!
The Massacre of the Innocents
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW!
Anatomical Study of a Man Reaching Up to the Left
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida NEW!
The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom (2nd image on the page)
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
The Road to Calvary
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Head of a Young Man, 1601-02
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Bonnefanten Museum, Netherlands
(to switch to English, click "english" at the top of the page)
Jan Neyen, 1607
Bonnefanten Museum, Netherlands
(to switch to English, click "english" at the top of the page)
Cimon and Pero, 1630-40
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
The Death of Dido, pen and brown ink, 1600-03
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Samson and Delilah
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, ca.1629-30
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
100 works by or related to the artist
Crocker Art Museum, California
Abduction of Europa, ca.1870
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
The Lamentation of Christ, ca.1605
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Study Heads Of An Old Man
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Study Heads of An Old Man
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
11 paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, mixed in with several by followers and copiers
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
St. Augustine, 1620
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
3 prints by Rubens
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
1 print possibly by Peter Paul Rubens
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Portrait of Charlotte
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Young Woman with Folded Hands
Three Women Holding Garlands
Frick Collection, New York City
A Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Galleria Borghese, Rome
The Deposition
St Sebastian Cared for by the Angels
Glasgow Museums, Scotland
Nature and Her Followers
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Marcus Brutus, 1638
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Germany (in German)
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Head of a Negro, ca.1620
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Maidens
The Duke of Buckingham
Koninklijk Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
The Adoration of the Magi
Koninklijk Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Information about the museum's role in Rubens scholarship
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "R"
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France (in French)
Vierge à l'Enfant et portraits des donateurs
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French) NEW!
Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Marche Region Museums, Italy
Adoration of the Shepherds
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
The Reconciliation of King Henry III and Henry of Navarre
Ulysses Landing on the Island of the Phaeacians
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
The Union of England and Scotland (Charles I as the Prince of Wales), 1630
Moravian Gallery Brno, Czech Republic
Head of Medusa (with Frans Snyders)
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Christ Crucified between Two Thieves, ca.1635
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
Tête et pieds d'un enfant, drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (partly in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
L'Adoration des mages
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Descent from the Cross, drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
La Chasse au tigre (The Tiger Hunt)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French) NEW!
L'Adoration des Bergers
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles, France (in French) NEW!
La chasse au sanglier
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Tête et pieds d'un enfant, 1615
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France NEW!
Musei Civici di Fermo, Marche Region, Italy (in Italian)
Adorazione dei pastori
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Portrait of Helena Fourment
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum Bredius, Netherlands
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France NEW!
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Venus and Adonis, ca.1610
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
The Assumption of the Virgin Mary, ca.1616/18 (in TIFF format)
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
See the SECOND Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
Pan and Syrinx, ca.1617 (with Jan Brueghel)
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
The Flight into Egypt
National Museum of Art of Romania NEW!
The Fight of Hercules with the Lion of Nemeea
National Museum of Art of Romania NEW!
The Portrait of Giovanna Spinola Pavese
National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid, Spain
Democritus and Heraclitus
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Aeneas in the Underworld
National Museums Liverpool, UK
The Virgin and Child
National Museums Liverpool, UK
God creating Adam, after Michelangelo, 1601/02
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
The Bacchanalia on Andros
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
St. Catherine of Alexandria, etching
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
Decius Mus consulting the Auspices, 1617
Our Lady’s Cathedral of Antwerp, Belgium
4 paintings by Peter Paul Rubens
Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
The Three Graces (with Jan Bruegel II)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
11 works by Peter Paul Rubens online
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Seated Nude Youth, chalk drawing
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Angel Blowing a Trumpet, chalk drawing
Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome (in Italian)
Romolo e Remo
Poznan National Museum, Poznan, Poland NEW!
The first work on the page is what appears to be a drawing by Rubens
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
Girl and Satyr with Fruit-basket
Allegory on Charles V as Ruler of the World
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
8 paintings online
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Rubens: A Genius at Work"
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
About 25 works by Rubens' own hand, as well as a variety of related works
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Marquis Ambrogio Spinola, ca.1630
San Diego Museum of Art, California
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "R"
San Diego Museum of Art, California - Provenance Research Project
Allegory of Eternity, ca.1625-30
Seattle Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Old Lady with Young Girl
State Museums of Berlin
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Abbed Yrsselius, ca.1624
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2002-2003 exhibition
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Portrait of Madame de Vicq
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
The British Museum, London, UK
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
Presumed portrait of the Marchesa Veronica Spinola Doria
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
9 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
- you can zoom in via the mouse scroll wheel, then click the image and drag it around
4 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
- you can zoom in via the mouse scroll wheel, then click the image and drag it around
Saint Roch as Patron of the Plague-Stricken, ca.1623
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Portrait of a Young Man in Armor
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The Crowning of Saint Catherine
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Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
University of Delaware Library
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles NEW!
Venus Wounded by a Thorn, ca.1608-10
(Don't miss the "fullscreen" icon when viewing images)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Pallas and Arachne, 1636-37
Virtual Uffizi
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Juno and Argus (with detail images)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Selbstbildnis im Kreise der Mantuaner Freunde, ca.1604
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
9 works
Flemish Art Collection, Belgium
The Adoration of the Magi, 1624-26
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
62 paintings - click on "Groupe suivant" to see page 2 of search results
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
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