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Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings

23 March 2024 to 23 June 2024

35 Beaumont Street
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2PH
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Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings. Image: The Temptation of St Anthony, Pieter Bruegel I, c. 1556, pen in brown ink on laid paper © Ashmolean Museum
Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings. Image: The Temptation of St Anthony, Pieter Bruegel I, c. 1556, pen in brown ink on laid paper © Ashmolean Museum

About Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings

Showcasing over 100 exceptional Flemish drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries.

From Pieter Bruegel’s remarkable print designs and landscapes and Rubens’s first sketches to heartfelt friendship albums shared between artists, this major exhibition presents drawings from many of the Flemish masters, rarely seen in public.

The exhibition will show 120 drawings, with over 30 on display for the first time, including some which have only recently been discovered. 

These are some of the most exquisite drawings kept in Antwerp and Oxford collections by famous artists such as Pieter Bruegel, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacques Jordaens. They will provide insights into how these artists honed their drawing skills throughout their careers. 

‘Bruegel to Rubens’ is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get close to these delicate and often intimate drawings and the objects they inspired.


Tickets

£15.30

Please see important booking information below.


Booking information

Prices:

  • Full price – £15.30
  • Senior Citizen (65 and over) and University of Oxford Employees / Alumni – £14.30
  • Child 12 to 17, Under 25 / Student, Art Fund Pass Holder, Blue Light Card Holder, and Jobseeker – £7.65
  • Children Under 12, University of Oxford Student, AshPass Holder, Carer (accompanying a paying disabled person), Ashmolean Staff and Reciprocal Entry – Free

While entry to the exhibition is free for Members, it is advisable to pre-book a timed slot, especially at busier periods, to guarantee entry. You will need your 13- or 14- digit Membership Number to book.

Good to know:
This exhibition was co-organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp and Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford. It was initially presented in Antwerp, Belgium from 17 Nov 2023 to 18 Feb 2024 curated by Virginie D’haene. The adapted exhibition at the Ashmolean was co-curated by An Van Camp and Virginie D’haene.


Selected artworks in the exhibition

Torso Belvedere, Peter Paul Rubens, 1600-3, black chalk (or charcoal) on laid paper © Collection City of Antwerp, Rubenshuis
Portrait of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, Peter Paul Rubens, 1629-30, pen & brush in brown ink, with brown wash, over black & red chalk, on laid paper © Ashmolean Museum
Study of a Young Girl, Cornelis de Vos, c.1663-5, black & red chalk on laid paper © The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp
Study of the Head of Henri IV, Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1622, black chalk & faint grey wash, heightened with white chalk, on laid paper © Collection City of Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus
Diana and Actaeon, Hendrick van Balen I, 1605, pen in brown ink with brown & blue washes, heightened with white opaque watercolour, on laid paper © Collection City of Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus