23/03/2024 - 23/06/2024

Explore over 100 exceptional Flemish drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries during Bruegel to Rubens. Great Flemish Drawings at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. From Pieter Bruegel’s intricate print designs to Rubens’s sketches, the exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the artistic genius of Flemish masters, whilst providing valuable insights into their creative processes.

Notably, the exhibition features no less than four works from The Phoebus Foundation collection, including Peter Paul Rubens’ Study of the Legs of a Male Nude and Pieter Bruegel I’s enchanting Village with a Group of Trees and a Mule.

Pieter Bruegel I, A Village with a Group of Trees and a Mule, c.1554
Peter Paul Rubens, Écorché Study of the Legs of a Male Nude with a study of the right leg, c.1600-1608
Tomasso Vincidor, Study of a head of an old manc. 1520