Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel
The return from war: Mars disarmed by Venus, ca. 1610-12
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum
Acquired in honor of John Walsh, 2000
Organizers
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum
The Hague, Mauritshuis
Curators
Ariane van Suchtelen, Mauritshuis
Anne Woollett, J. Paul Getty Museum
From the museum website
Between 1597 and 1625, Antwerp’s most eminent painters, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, jointly produced sophisticated, beautiful works that transformed the Flemish tradition of painting. This exhibition brings together a dozen of their collaborations for the first time, as well as important efforts with other eminent Flemish contemporaries, exploring the long, close friendship of Rubens and Breughel, and the fruitful partnership that resulted. The exhibition draws on the expertise of paintings conservators whose close technical examination of the Getty’s Return from war: Mars disarmed by Venus and other works has unearthed new information regarding this extraordinarily rare artistic collaboration. Co-organized by the Getty and the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, the exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue and travels to The Hague after its showing at the Getty Center.
Related event
Venues
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum (5 July-24 September 2006)
The Hague, Mauritshuis (21 October 2006-28 January 2007)