Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship - Softcover

Woollett, Anne; Van Suchtelen, Ariane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892368489 ISBN 13: 9780892368488

Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006

Synopsis

Truly collaborative paintings, that is, not simply mechanical but also conceptual co-productions, are rare in the history of art. This gorgeously illustrated catalogue explores just such an extraordinary partnership between Antwerp's most eminent painters of the early seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Rubens and Brueghel executed approximately twenty-five works together between around 1597 and Brueghel's death in 1625. Highly prized and sought after by collectors throughout Europe, the collaborative works of Rubens and Brueghel were distinguished by an extremely high level of quality, further enhanced by the status of the artists themselves.
Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum to be held July 5 to September 24, 2006, the catalogue features twenty-six color plates of such Rubens/Brueghel paintings as The Return from War, The Feast of Acheloüs, and Madonna and Child in a Garland of Flowers, along with Rubens and Brueghel's collaborations with important contemporaries such as Frans Snyders and Hendrick van Balen. This is the first such publication to fully address and reproduce these works in depth.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Woollett is associate curator of paintings at the Getty Museum.

About this edition

• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0892368489
• ISBN 13: 9780892368488
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270