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LES COLLECTIONS DU PRINCE DE LIECHTENSTEIN Cranach, Raphaël, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Vernet, Hubert Robert, Vigée-Lebrun

Special Exhibition in Aix-en-Provence 2015/16
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  • 7.11.2015 – 28.3.2016

    Aix en Provence, Hotel de Caumont

The Princes of Liechtenstein have been great lovers and connoisseurs of art since the sixteenth century. Recently the finest objects from the collection’s holdings were shown in exhibitions in Japan (Tokyo, Kochi, Kyoto), Singapore, China (Beijing, Shanghai), Moscow and Taiwan (Taipei). From November 2015 masterpieces from the collections will be displayed at the Hôtel de Caumont in Aix-en-Provence in a world-class exhibition.

Fifty princely masterpieces on display in France

Today the Princely Collections are still one of the most important and at the same time most vibrant collections in private hands. Hans-Adam II, owner of the collections and ruling Prince of Liechtenstein, is steadily extending the holdings on the basis of an on-going acquisitions policy in keeping with the centuries-old tradition of his forebears. Dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, the works on display at the Caumont Centre d’Art illustrate the artistic tastes of the Princely Family.


Giovanni Battista Moroni (um 1521/24–1580), Portrait of Prospero Alessandri, c. 1560

Tour of the exhibition

The exhibition at the Caumont Centre d’Art begins with treasures from the early Renaissance, a period in which the late medieval artistic forms of expression underwent a change, as demonstrated here by examples of major importance. The wonderful Venus (1531) of Lukas Cranach the Elder and his St Christopher already have a very natural physical presence, foreshadowing future developments in painting. The painters of that time increasingly turned their attention to the portrayal of human beings, putting the individual in the foreground, as attested by the Portrait of a Man (c. 1502–1504) by Raphael or the Tax Collectors by Quentin Massys. It is particularly in the genre of Renaissance portraiture that the Princely Collections possess superb recently acquired works, some of which have never been shown in public before, including examples by Jan Gossaert, Alonso Sanchez Coello, Rosso Fiorentino and Antonis Mor. The art of the sixteenth century concludes in this section with a Mannerist painting by Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (St Sebastian, 1591).

Peter Paul Rubens was one of the foremost painters of his time. The exhibition contains a number of his works including the masterly painting Mars and Rhea Silvia (c. 1616/17), which has been in the collections since 1710 and can be admired side by side with the oil sketch on which it is based, a work acquired in 1977. In addition, the unique Portrait of Clara Serena Rubens (1611–1623) (1616) gives a wholly personal insight into the way this great master of the Flemish Baroque worked.

During the seventeenth century, genres that had hitherto been disregarded were accorded new value or even became established for the first time, including landscape painting as a genre in its own right, genre scenes from daily life and the still life. The Princely Collections also possess treasures from these fields: an early work by Rembrandt, Cupid with the Soap Bubble, and still lifes in the best tradition of Flemish painting, displayed alongside some of the finest portraiture of the time by Frans Hals and Anthony van Dyck.

The penultimate section of the exhibition is devoted to the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Giovanni Paolo Pannini (Capriccio with the Principal Monuments and Sculptures of Ancient Rome, 1735) and Hubert Robert (Capriccio with the Pantheon and the Porto di Ripetta, 1761) created monumental landscapes and urban vedutas into which they integrated historic edifices from classical times. By contrast, Joseph Vernet preferred to place his Bathers in a more exotic setting observed faithfully from nature.

The exhibition concludes with an evocation of the aristocratic milieu in Vienna during the eighteenth and nineteenth century, with insights into the world of Neoclassicism and Biedermeier. Portraits by the French artist Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, who was commissioned by Prince Alois I von Liechtenstein to paint a likeness of his wife as Iris, the messenger of the gods, together with a charming depiction of the future emperor Franz Joseph I as a miniature grenadier playing with his toy soldiers stand for the beginning of an epoch that was to be of decisive political and artistic importance.

The exhibition is divided into ten subject areas which among many other aspects also provide the visitor with insights into the history of the family and the collections of one of Europe’s foremost noble dynasties.

The Hôtel de Caumont in Aix-en-Provence

Erected in the eighteenth century, the Hôtel de Caumont reopened on 6 May 2015 following complete restoration with a high-calibre exhibition on Canaletto. As one of France’s important cultural monuments, it housed the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud until 2013 before being taken over by the institution culturespaces. The Hôtel de Caumont is now run as an exhibition venue under the name Caumont Centre d’Art.

Aix-en-Provence, Hôtel de Caumont

Organizer: culturespaces
Concept: Dr Johann Kräftner, Director, LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vaduz–Vienna
Catalogue: The exhibition is accompanied by a French-language catalogue

Exhibited objects

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Madonna mit Kind

The Virgin and Child

Jan Gossaert
around 1520

Madonna mit Kind

The Virgin and Child

Jan Gossaert
around 1520

Satyr und Mädchen mit Früchtekorb

Satyr and Maid with Fruit Basket

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
around 1615

Satyr und Mädchen mit Früchtekorb

Satyr and Maid with Fruit Basket

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
around 1615

Der heilige Christophorus (auf der Rückseite das Wappen der Fürsten von Anhalt)

St Christopher (on the reverse the arms of the Princes von Anhalt)

Lucas Cranach the Elder
1515-1520

Der heilige Christophorus (auf der Rückseite das Wappen der Fürsten von Anhalt)

St Christopher (on the reverse the arms of the Princes von Anhalt)

Lucas Cranach the Elder
1515-1520

Porträt von zwei jungen Frauen

Portrait of Two Young Women

Henri-François Riesener
around 1800

Porträt von zwei jungen Frauen

Portrait of Two Young Women

Henri-François Riesener
around 1800

Idealbildnis eines gerüsteten Kriegers ("Mars")

Ideal Portrait of an Armoured Warrior ('Mars')

Karel van der Pluym
1648

Idealbildnis eines gerüsteten Kriegers ("Mars")

Ideal Portrait of an Armoured Warrior ('Mars')

Karel van der Pluym
1648

Porträt eines Mannes mit schwarzem Hut

Portrait of a Man in a Black Cap

Rosso Fiorentino
around 1514

Porträt eines Mannes mit schwarzem Hut

Portrait of a Man in a Black Cap

Rosso Fiorentino
around 1514

Totes Geflügel auf einem Steintisch

A Dead Hare, Hunting Equipment and Dead Gamefowl on a Stone Table

Jan Baptist Weenix the Elder

Totes Geflügel auf einem Steintisch

A Dead Hare, Hunting Equipment and Dead Gamefowl on a Stone Table

Jan Baptist Weenix the Elder

Fürst Hans-Adam II. (geb. 1945) and Fürstin Marie (geb. 1940) von und zu Liechtenstein

Prince Hans-Adam II (b. 1945) and Princess Marie (1940–2021) von und zu Liechtenstein

Anthony Buckley & Constantine
1989/90

Fürst Hans-Adam II. (geb. 1945) and Fürstin Marie (geb. 1940) von und zu Liechtenstein

Prince Hans-Adam II (b. 1945) and Princess Marie (1940–2021) von und zu Liechtenstein

Anthony Buckley & Constantine
1989/90

Venus

Venus

Lucas Cranach the Elder
1531

Venus

Venus

Lucas Cranach the Elder
1531

Lautenspieler und Flötenspieler

The Lautenist and the Flautist

Matthias Stom(er)
1640s

Lautenspieler und Flötenspieler

The Lautenist and the Flautist

Matthias Stom(er)
1640s

Porträt des Alessandro Farnese mit Cape und schwarzer Kappe

Alessandro Farnese in Cape and Black Cap

Antonis Mor
around 1560

Porträt des Alessandro Farnese mit Cape und schwarzer Kappe

Alessandro Farnese in Cape and Black Cap

Antonis Mor
around 1560

Porträt des Prinzen Hartmann von Liechtenstein (1613–1686)

Portrait of Prince Hartmann von Liechtenstein (1613–1686)

Brussels (?), around 1630
around 1630

Porträt des Prinzen Hartmann von Liechtenstein (1613–1686)

Portrait of Prince Hartmann von Liechtenstein (1613–1686)

Brussels (?), around 1630
around 1630

Interieur im Wohnhaus des Fürsten Liechtenstein an der Jägerzeile in Wien

Interior in the Liechtenstein Residence on Jägerzeile in Vienna

Rudolf von Alt
1833

Interieur im Wohnhaus des Fürsten Liechtenstein an der Jägerzeile in Wien

Interior in the Liechtenstein Residence on Jägerzeile in Vienna

Rudolf von Alt
1833

Der heilige Hieronymus

St Jerome

Marco Palmezzano
1500

Der heilige Hieronymus

St Jerome

Marco Palmezzano
1500

Der heilige Franziskus

St Francis

Marco Palmezzano
1500

Der heilige Franziskus

St Francis

Marco Palmezzano
1500

Bacchanal in antikem Ruinencapriccio

Bacchanal with Capriccio of Antique Ruins

Clemente Spera, Alessandro Magnasco
1726-1727

Bacchanal in antikem Ruinencapriccio

Bacchanal with Capriccio of Antique Ruins

Clemente Spera, Alessandro Magnasco
1726-1727

Der heilige Sebastian

St Sebastian

Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem
around 1591

Der heilige Sebastian

St Sebastian

Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem
around 1591

Die Auferweckung des Lazarus

The Raising of Lazarus

Maerten de No such property: PerNameTxt for class: groovy.script
1593

Die Auferweckung des Lazarus

The Raising of Lazarus

Maerten de No such property: PerNameTxt for class: groovy.script
1593

Der heilige Johannes der Täufer

St John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto
around 1520

Der heilige Johannes der Täufer

St John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto
around 1520

Porträt einer Dame im roten Kleid

Portrait of a Lady in a Red Dress

Bernardino Zaganelli da Cotignola
around 1500

Porträt einer Dame im roten Kleid

Portrait of a Lady in a Red Dress

Bernardino Zaganelli da Cotignola
around 1500

Rote und weisse Trauben mit Tafelsilber

Red and White Grapes with Silver Tableware

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
1841

Rote und weisse Trauben mit Tafelsilber

Red and White Grapes with Silver Tableware

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
1841

Maria mit dem Kind und dem heiligen Antonius

Madonna with Child and St Anthony

Alessandro Bonvicino da Brescia, called Moretto
1540/45

Maria mit dem Kind und dem heiligen Antonius

Madonna with Child and St Anthony

Alessandro Bonvicino da Brescia, called Moretto
1540/45

Die Badenden

Bathers

Claude Joseph Vernet
1759

Die Badenden

Bathers

Claude Joseph Vernet
1759

Turboschnecken-Pokal

Turban snail goblet

Johann Baptist Weinold I.
1635/40

Turboschnecken-Pokal

Turban snail goblet

Johann Baptist Weinold I.
1635/40

Die Auffindung des Moses

The Finding of Moses

Francesco Solimena
around 1690

Die Auffindung des Moses

The Finding of Moses

Francesco Solimena
around 1690

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