Artist: Rubens, Peter Paul (1577 -1640)

Item Title:

The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens : A Critical Catalogue.

Author:

Held, Julius S.

ISBN:

0691039294

Item Number:

v.1-v.2

Imprint:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1980.

Language:

English

Size:

29 cm

Pages:

698

Illustrations:

v. 1: 71 b&w; v. 2: 504 b&w, 25 color plates

Concordance:

No

Bibliography:

Yes

Index:

Yes

Exhibition List:

No

Chronology:

No

Public Note:

The publication includes esssays on the function of Rubens' oil sketches and a glossary of terms and a discussion of collecting and appreciation of the sketches.

The catalogue raisonné lists 460 bozzetti and modelli that the author considers authentic. The catalogue is organized thematically: oil sketches associated with cycles (Decius Mus, Jesuit Church at Antwerp, Life of Constantine, etc.), and individual sketches.