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Rubens, Van Dyck and the Splendour of Flemish Painting

Rubens exhibition in Budapest
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  • 30.10.2019 – 16.2.2020

    Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Museum der bildenden Künste)

The exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts running from late October showcases the Golden Age of Flemish painting through the art of the foremost Baroque master of European art, Peter Paul Rubens, and that of his contemporaries.
Rubens, Van Dyck and the Splendour of Flemish Painting is based on the Museum of Fine Arts’ rich Flemish material of paintings as well as numerous graphic works. The museum’s main cooperating partner is LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vaduz–Vienna, contributing twenty remarkable masterpieces, among them a piece from Rubens’ monumental Decius Mus cycle (The Interpretation of the Victim), to be displayed along with the splendid tapestry based on the painting and woven with gold and silver thread (Palacio Real, Madrid). This will be the debut for the two works to be exhibited together.

Szépművészeti Múzeum Budapest, left: “The Interpretation of the Victim”, design by Peter Paul Rubens, executed by Anthony van Dyck and Jan Wildens, with the tapestry of the same title from the Palacio Real de Madrid, inv. no. TA-52/3 10005846

The exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts running from late October showcases the Golden Age of Flemish painting through the art of the foremost Baroque master of European art, Peter Paul Rubens, and that of his contemporaries.

Rubens, Van Dyck and the Splendour of Flemish Painting is based on the Museum of Fine Arts’ rich Flemish material of paintings as well as numerous graphic works. The museum’s main cooperating partner is LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vaduz–Vienna, contributing twenty remarkable masterpieces, among them a piece from Rubens’ monumental Decius Mus cycle (The Interpretation of the Victim), to be displayed along with the splendid tapestry based on the painting and woven with gold and silver thread (Palacio Real, Madrid). This will be the debut for the two works to be exhibited together.

Besides that, the 120 or so displayed works have been loaned from forty prominent public collections, including the Louvre in Paris, the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the Prado in Madrid, the National Gallery in Washington DC and the National Gallery in London. In addition to almost thirty masterpieces by Rubens and more than a dozen by Van Dyck, visitors will be able to see excellent works by other Flemish masters too.

The main goal of the exhibition is to highlight Peter Paul Rubens’s genius and the pivotal influence of his artistic output upon his age through works in the museum’s own collections and the loaned pieces, while showcasing the versatile, stylistically and thematically rich 17th-century Flemish painting, which developed from and alongside Rubens’ art. Another important aspect of the Budapest show is to draw attention to the extensive and lasting cultural ties between the Southern Netherlands and Hungary, in which a key figure was Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Habsburg.

Szépművészeti Múzeum Budapest, “The Interpretation of the Victim”, tapestry after a cartoon by Peter Paul Rubens, Palacio Real de Madrid, inv. no. TA-52/3 10005846

The exhibition is made up of ten large sections. The first two will guide visitors to the prominent centres of the 17th-century Southern Netherlands, its sovereigns and outstanding artists; they will also paint a picture about the reign of the archducal couple, Albert and Isabella of Habsburg, a period during which the victorious Counter-Reformation and the flourishing of Catholicism brought about a new era of art patronage. The third section will focus on the multifarious ties Flemish painters had with Italy, stressing the important role the Italian years and the works of Antiquity, the Renaissance and contemporary masters played in the art and life of both Rubens and Van Dyck. This will be followed by works with biblical and mythological themes. The spirit of the Counter-Reformation will be evoked in two sections with pieces made for private devotion and promoting the cult of the saints, as well as large-scale altarpieces.

The joint display of one of the tapestries of the Golden Decius Mus cycle and Rubens’s cartoon painted for it will be a true curiosity of the exhibition. Visitors will also get an insight into tapestry art, a genre renewed by Rubens, and its process from oil sketches to weaving in this section. The next part will bring masterpieces of the period’s most characteristic genres to the public: still-lifes, landscapes and animal depictions. It will familiarize visitors with the collaborative method typical of Flemish painting: the way in which artists specializing in different genres jointly created works of art.

The chapter devoted to portraits will include numerous brilliantly executed likenesses by Van Dyck, including the Szépművészeti Múzeum’s new acquisition of prominent value: the portrait of Maria Henrietta Stuart. This unit will also draw attention to Van Dyck’s artistic activity in England, during which he exerted a transformative influence upon English portrait painting and introduced changes that shaped the European development of the genre. The closing section of the exhibition will introduce visitors to genre pictures and works illustrating proverbs. This section will demonstrate how the art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder moralizing upon the follies of human nature fundamentally defined 17th-century Flemish genre painting depicting the lives and festivities of peasants, Netherlandish proverbs and fables widely known in Europe.

Anthonis van Dyck (1599–1641), Portrait of Maria de Tassis (1611–1638), c. 1829/30

Similarly to the Museum of Fine Arts’ other large-scale exhibitions, a richly illustrated catalogue containing studies and catalogue entries in Hungarian and English was made for this show with the participation of renowned foreign and Hungarian art historians.

Exhibition curator: Júlia Tátrai, art historian and head of the Department of Old Master Paintings

Exhibited objects

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Porträt der Clara Serena Rubens, der Tochter des Künstlers (1611–1623)

Portrait of Clara Serena Rubens, the Artist's Daughter (1611–1623)

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1616

Porträt der Clara Serena Rubens, der Tochter des Künstlers (1611–1623)

Portrait of Clara Serena Rubens, the Artist's Daughter (1611–1623)

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1616

Porträt der Maria de Tassis (1611–1638)

Portrait of Maria de Tassis (1611–1638)

Anthony van Dyck
c. 1629/30

Porträt der Maria de Tassis (1611–1638)

Portrait of Maria de Tassis (1611–1638)

Anthony van Dyck
c. 1629/30

Die Auffindung des Erichthoniusknaben

The Discovery of the Infant Erichthonius

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1616

Die Auffindung des Erichthoniusknaben

The Discovery of the Infant Erichthonius

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1616

Ganymed

Ganymede

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
1611/12

Ganymed

Ganymede

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
1611/12

Die Beweinung Christi

The Lamentation

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1612

Die Beweinung Christi

The Lamentation

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1612

Landschaft mit dem jungen Tobias

Landscape with the Young Tobias

Jan Brueghel the Elder
1598

Landschaft mit dem jungen Tobias

Landscape with the Young Tobias

Jan Brueghel the Elder
1598

Allegorie Afrikas (aus der Serie „Die vier Erdteile")

Allegory of Africa (from a Series of "The Four Parts of the World")

Jan Boeckhorst

Allegorie Afrikas (aus der Serie „Die vier Erdteile")

Allegory of Africa (from a Series of "The Four Parts of the World")

Jan Boeckhorst

Blumenbouquet, sogenannter Liechtensteiner Strauss

A Bouquet of Flowers, the so-called Liechtenstein Bouquet

Roelant Savery
1612

Blumenbouquet, sogenannter Liechtensteiner Strauss

A Bouquet of Flowers, the so-called Liechtenstein Bouquet

Roelant Savery
1612

Der heilige Hieronymus

St Jerome

Anthony van Dyck
c. 1615/16

Der heilige Hieronymus

St Jerome

Anthony van Dyck
c. 1615/16

Decius Mus befragt die Haruspizien

The Interpretation of the Victim

Design Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Workshop Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Execution Anthony van Dyck, execution Jan Wildens
1616/17

Decius Mus befragt die Haruspizien

The Interpretation of the Victim

Design Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Workshop Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Execution Anthony van Dyck, execution Jan Wildens
1616/17

Der Teich am Wald

Landscape with Milkmaids and Cows

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
after 1616

Der Teich am Wald

Landscape with Milkmaids and Cows

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
after 1616

Liegende Löwin

The Lioness

Frans Snyders
1620/30

Liegende Löwin

The Lioness

Frans Snyders
1620/30

Die Anbetung der Hirten

Adoration of the Shepherds

Jacques Jordaens
c. 1615

Die Anbetung der Hirten

Adoration of the Shepherds

Jacques Jordaens
c. 1615

Wie die Alten sungen, so pfeifen die Jungen

As the Old Sang, so Pipe the Young

Jacques Jordaens
1644

Wie die Alten sungen, so pfeifen die Jungen

As the Old Sang, so Pipe the Young

Jacques Jordaens
1644

Die Verleugnung Petri

The Denial of St Peter

Theodoor Rombouts

Die Verleugnung Petri

The Denial of St Peter

Theodoor Rombouts

Drei Sänger

Three Singers

Adam de Coster
1st half of the 17th century.

Drei Sänger

Three Singers

Adam de Coster
1st half of the 17th century.

Das Vogelkonzert

Concert of Birds

Jan Fyt
1658

Das Vogelkonzert

Concert of Birds

Jan Fyt
1658

Die Gaben des Meeres

The Gifts of the Sea

Jacques Jordaens, Frans Snyders
1640/50

Die Gaben des Meeres

The Gifts of the Sea

Jacques Jordaens, Frans Snyders
1640/50

Reitknecht mit zwei Pferden und Hunden

Groom with Two Horses and Hounds

Jan Fyt
1640/45

Reitknecht mit zwei Pferden und Hunden

Groom with Two Horses and Hounds

Jan Fyt
1640/45

Grosses Stillleben mit Äpfeln, Trauben und einer Blumenvase

Large Still Life with Apples, Grapes and a Vase of Flowers

Osias Beert the Elder
1600/20

Grosses Stillleben mit Äpfeln, Trauben und einer Blumenvase

Large Still Life with Apples, Grapes and a Vase of Flowers

Osias Beert the Elder
1600/20

Porträt des Malers Frans Snyders

Portrait of the Artist Frans Snyders (1579–1657)

Workshop Anthony van Dyck
c. 1620/21

Porträt des Malers Frans Snyders

Portrait of the Artist Frans Snyders (1579–1657)

Workshop Anthony van Dyck
c. 1620/21

Satyr und Mädchen mit Früchtekorb

Satyr and Maid with Fruit Basket

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1615

Satyr und Mädchen mit Früchtekorb

Satyr and Maid with Fruit Basket

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1615

Grosse Säulenhalle mit Aufzug zum Turnier

A large vaulted arcade, a tournament beyond

Hendrik van Steenwyck
1598

Grosse Säulenhalle mit Aufzug zum Turnier

A large vaulted arcade, a tournament beyond

Hendrik van Steenwyck
1598

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