CORPUS RUBENIANUM LUDWIG BURCHARD PART XVIII LANDSCAPES and HUNTING SCENES F/C L L J L J O
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CORPUS RUBENIANUM LUDWIG BURCHARD PART XVIII LANDSCAPES AND HUNTING SCENES f/C l l j l j o I • LANDSCAPES BY WOLFGANG ADLER CORPUS RUBENIANUM LUDWIG BURCHARD AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF THE WORK OF PETER PAUL RUBENS BASED ON THE MATERIAL ASSEMBLED BY THE LATE DR LUDWIG BURCHARD IN TWENTY-SIX PARTS TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY P. S. FALLA SPONSORED BY THE CITY OF ANTWERP AND EDITED BY THE ‘ NATIONAAL CENTRUM VOOR DE PLASTISCHE KUNSTEN VAN DE xvide EN xvnde EEUW’ r.-a. d’hulst, President • f. Baudouin, Secretary ■ r. pandelaers, Treasurer N. DE POORTER ' G. GEPTS • H. LIEBAERS • J. K. STEPPE • C. VAN DE VELDE ■ H. VLIEGHE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS: P. HUVENNE • M. VANDENVEN LANDSCAPES BY WOLFGANG ADLER HARVEY MILLER PUBLISHERS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Klrmm ch;;::* voos ut pusnsat »rata VMKMdaEKDEItaOiW Originating Publisher h a r v e y m i l l e r • 20 Marryat Road • London SW19 5BD Published in conjunction with o x f o r d u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s Walton Street • Oxford 0x2 6d p Published in the United States by o x f o r d u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s • New York © 1982 Nationaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de i6de en de I7dc' eeuw ISBN 019 921027 6 Text set by Advanced Filmsetters Ltd • Glasgow • Scotland Illustrations originated by Quantock Studios • Sidcup ■ Kent Printed and Bound by Clark Constable Ltd • Edinburgh ■ Scotland CONTENTS Author’s Preface page 7 Abbreviations 9 Introduction 21 Catalogue Raisonné 37 Illustrations 193 List of Illustrations 349 Sources of Photographs 354 Indexes: 355 I • Collections 356 II • Subjects 361 III • Other Works by Rubens 368 mentioned in the Text IV • Names and Places 370 AUTHOR’S PREFACE N TH E 1960s, when completing my doctoral thesis on Jan Wildens’s col Ilaboration with Rubens as a landscape painter, I frequently consulted the records at the Rubenianum in Antwerp. At that time Professor R.-A. d’Hulst, President of the ‘Nationaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de 16de en de i7de Eeuw’, invited me to compile the two volumes of Part X V III of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, entitled Hunting Scenes and Landscapes. I was able to begin this work in 1972 thanks to the generosity of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in providing a research grant with liberal travelling expenses. It soon became clear, however, that the volume of material on Hunting Scenes and Landscapes was too great to be handled adequately at the same time by a single researcher, and moreover that these two important branches of Rubens’s activity have much less in common than is suggested by the fact that they are traditionally grouped together. One reason for this may be that Rubens’s hunting scenes partake of the nature of battle-pieces. Some years ago it was accordingly decided that M r Arnout Balis would take over the editorship of Volume 2 of Part X V III, dealing with Hunting Scenes. There are only two instances in which problems arise from the overlapping of the two types of theme, and only one of these presents a real dilemma. With much hesitation, the Wild Boar Hunt at Dresden has been included (as Cat. No, 18) in the Landscapes volume. It will, however, also be described in the volume on Hunting Scenes, naturally without a separate catalogue number. This case in particular serves to justify the grouping of Landscape and Hunting Scenes in Part X V III of the series. A less problematical case is the Prado Landscape with the Hunt of Meleager and Atalanta (No.41), where the mythological hunting scene, composed of fairly small figures, is presented in the symbolic setting of a golden sunset contrasted with the deepening shades of night. This late work clearly ranks as a landscape painting, but the hunting scene will also be dealt with separately in Volume 2. I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks for the kind and helpful cooperation I have received at the Rubenianum. I am especially grateful to Professor R.-A. d’Hulst, Mr Frans Baudouin, Dr Hans Vlieghe, who is responsible for the detailed editorship of this Volume, and Dr Carl Van de Velde. A very special word of thanks goes to M r P. S. Falla, for his careful and far from easy translation of my original German text. Without the generous aid 7 a u t h o r ’s p r e f a c e of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft I could neither have undertaken nor completed a task which has occupied several years. Institutions which have given me unstinting help are, in particular, the Rijksbureau voor Kunst historische Documentatie at The Hague, the Department of Prints and Drawings and the Library of the British Museum, the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Graphische Sammlung Albertina in Vienna, and the Royal Library in Brussels. For assistance over many years I owe special thanks to Sir Oliver Millar, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures in London, M. Jacques Foucart of the Louvre, Sr. Matias Diaz Padrón of the Prado, Mme Maria Varshavskaya, Dr Irina Linnik and M r Yury Kuznetsov of the Hermitage, and Dr Jan Kelch of the Gemäldegalerie at Berlin-Dahlem. I received help on many specific problems from Professor J. Q. van Regteren Altena, the late late Robert von Hirsch and the late Frits Lugt. I cannot enumerate the many colleagues in European and American museums and collectors in Europe and the United States who have given ready assistance and enabled me to examine closely works in their possession or custody. I extend my thanks to them all, and finally to Dr Jan Theuwissen, Director of the Interprovinciale Kultuurraad voor Vlaanderen, and his wife Godelieve for their kindness and the invaluable hospitality I enjoyed at their home in Antwerp during long periods of work on the preparation of this volume. Wolfgang Adler 8 ABBREVIATIONS Literature: Adler, Wildens W. Adler, Ja n Wildens, Der Landschaftsmitarbeiter des Rubens, Fridingen, 1980. Akademie, Wien, Cat. Eigenberger R. Eigenberger, Die Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien, Vienna-Leipzig, 1927. Andrews, Elsheimer K. Andrews, Adam Elsheimer, Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Oxford, 1977. B. A. Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, I-XXI, Vienna, 1803-1821. 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