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Peter Paul Rubens Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
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
5 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Berlin
This space is now closed, but some information about past exhibitions remains online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of the Daughter of Balthasar Gerbier d'Ouvilly, chalk, 1629
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
39 works by Rubens
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
20 works online by Rubens
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
7 paintings online in high resolution
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
5 paintings online; see the "Flanders 17th century" section
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 Henri IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Médicis
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Baptism of Christ, 1604-05
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Hélène Fourment (1614-73) with a Carriage
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Village Fête
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Young woman holding a fan, 1630-33
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
18 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
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
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
7 works
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Rubens House, Antwerp, Belgium
Information on the artist and a few works from the collection
Peter Paul Rubens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Aeneas in the Underworld
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
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
The Massacre of the Innocents
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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
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
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Connecticut
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
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 NEW!
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK NEW!
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
St. Augustine, 1620
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Portrait of Charlotte
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
A Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Studies for Venus and for a Last Judgment
Galleria Borghese, Rome
The Deposition
St Sebastian Cared for by the Angels
Galleria Nazionale Palazzo Spinola, Genoa, Italy
This painting of a man on horseback is not identified on the website, but it is Rubens' Giovanni Carlo Doria, 1606-07
Glasgow Museums, Scotland
Nature and Her Followers
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Marcus Brutus, engraving, 1638
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
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, Omaha, Nebraska
Decius Mus Consulting the Soothsayers, 1617-18
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
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)
Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
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 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)
L'Adoration des Bergers
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles, France (in French)
La chasse au sanglier
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Tête et pieds d'un enfant, 1615
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
Musei Civici di Fermo, Marche Region, Italy (in Italian)
Adorazione dei pastori
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museo San Gregorio, National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid, Spain (in Spanish)
A larger image is in the museum database, which unfortunately cannot be linked to. Click "Ficha Completa" to see detail records for each item.
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
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)
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German)
Pan and Syrinx, ca.1617 (with Jan Brueghel)
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German)
The Flight into Egypt
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Hercules and Antaeus
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
See the SECOND Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
National Museum of Art of Romania
The Fight of Hercules with the Lion of Nemeea
National Museum of Art of Romania
The Portrait of Giovanna Spinola Pavese
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
2 works online
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
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
Decius Mus consulting the Auspices, 1617
Our Lady’s Cathedral of Antwerp, Belgium
4 paintings by Peter Paul Rubens
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)
Descente de Croix
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)
Martyre de sainte Catherine
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)
Sainte Marie-Madeleine en extase
Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Use the "right" arrow to advance to Sala 18 for Rubens' Venus and Mars
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
The Three Graces (with Jan Bruegel II)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Seated Nude Youth, chalk drawing
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Angel Blowing a Trumpet, chalk drawing
Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
6 paintings online; when looking at a painting, click "Vergroten" to enlarge it to full size
Poznan National Museum, Poznan, Poland
The first work on the page is what appears to be a drawing by Rubens
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
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 NEW!
Seattle Art Museum
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Old Lady with Young Girl
State Museums of Berlin
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2002-2003 exhibition
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Peter Paul Rubens at the 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 NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
4 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
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
(Click the "European 1000-1900" category, then see the work in the first row of thumbnails)
University of Delaware Library
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Venus Wounded by a Thorn, ca.1608-10
(Don't miss the "fullscreen" icon when viewing images)
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
3 prints by Rubens
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
1 print possibly by Peter Paul Rubens
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
Quite a few works online
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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Peter Paul Rubens 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
The Duke of Lerma, ca.1603
Artcyclopedia
"Rubens and his Age"
ARTnews
Annunciation (detail of cat), ca.1628
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Light in the Darkest of Times," article by Roderick Conway Morris
Salon Magazine
"Is the National Gallery's Samson and Delilah a fake?"
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Susanna Lunden ("The Straw Hat")
The London Evening Standard
"Right Rubens, wrong gallery", 2008 article by Brian Sewell
The Magazine Antiques
Image 1 in the slideshow is a drawing by Rubens
The New Yorker
"Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings", 2005 review by Peter Schjeldahl
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