Rubens' Europe was a temporary exhibition at the Louvre-Lens which took place in the temporary exhibitions gallery from May 22 to September 23, 2013, following the inaugural Renaissance exhibition. The exhibition brought together 170 works by Pierre Paul Rubens and his contemporaries, the majority of which were on loan from other museums.
Preparing the exhibition took just under two years of work. Many of the works involved come from major international museums. It was open to the public for four months, with 127,956 visitors attended, a little over 20,000 less than the inaugural exhibition, which was open for three weeks less. The statistics in terms of visitors were described as a "success" and "a satisfactory result", although the word of journalists and specialists were mixed, even sometimes negative, though often celebrating the quality of the works. The entrance fee was nine euros, the reduced price was eight. Rubens' Europe was replaced by The Etruscans and the Mediterranean from December 5, 2013.
The Caisse d'Épargne Nord France Europe was a "major sponsor" of the exhibition. The Exhibition was curated by Blaise Ducos.
Opening The opening took place on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in the afternoon, three hundred guests attending, including Daniel Percheron and Jean-Pierre Kucheida. As well as politicians, patrons or representatives of partner museums and lenders were present.
Unlike the Renaissance exhibition, whose vast majority of works came from the Louvre, most of the works for Rubens' Europe came from other museums, including those of eight countries: National Library of France, Paris, France Fondation Custodia, Paris, France Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, France National Institute of Art History, Paris, France Bonnat-Helleu Museum, Bayonne, France Palais des beaux-arts, Lille, France Chartreuse Museum, Douai, France Museum of the History of France, Versailles, France Museum of Fine Arts, Marseille, France Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany Maximilianmuseum, Augsburg, Germany Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, State Museums, Berlin, Germany Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Bruxelles, Belgium Rubenshuis, Antwerp, Belgium Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium Musée du Prado, Madrid, Spain Musée Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain Palacio de Liria, Madrid, Spain Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, Spain :es:Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, Spain Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, America Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, America National Gallery of Art, Washington, America Musée des beaux-arts de Houston, Houston, America Musée des beaux-arts, Boston, America J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, America Centre d'art britannique de Yale, New Haven, America Musée national du Bargello, Florence, Italy Palais Pitti, Florence, Italy Musées du Capitole, Rome, Italy Galerie Borghèse, Rome, Italy Musée Teyler, Haarlem, the Netherlands Musée Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The UK-Uni British Museum, London, The UK-Uni National Gallery, London, The UK-Uni Royal Collection, London, The UK-Uni Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, The UK-Uni
In total, there are fifty-three lenders, mostly museums, and some collectors. The works were in seven rooms: L'Europe des cours (rooms 1 and 2), Religious emotion and baroque faith (room No.3), Ephemeral monumentality (room No.4), Rubens, emulation and competition (room No .5), Rubens and the Republic of Letters (room No.6), and The Ways of Genius (room No.7).
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