Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
A total of 3 works by Rubens online
Peter Paul Rubens at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Peter Paul Rubens
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Berlin
Study with Hands and Two Male Heads, ca.1613
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of the Daughter of Balthasar Gerbier d'Ouvilly, chalk, 1629
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
39 works by Rubens
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
20 works online by Rubens
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
5 works
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
11 zoomable works online
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
9 zoomable works online
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
15 zoomable works online
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Boreas Abducts Oreithya, ca.1615 (Zoom)
The Circumcision, 1605 (Zoom)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Click on "List of Works" and "Rubens as model" for many zoomable works
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Médicis, 1621-25
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Village Fete, 1635-38
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Lamentation over Christ, by either Rubens or Otto van Veen
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Baptism of Christ, black chalk drawing, 1604-5
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Young woman holding a fan, drawing, 1630-33
Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Hélène Fourment with a Carriage, ca.1639
Peter Paul Rubens in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
18 paintings
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (with Jan Brueghel)
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
4 paintings online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, ca.1635
Wolf and Fox Hunt, ca.1615-21
Venus and Adonis, 1630s
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
The Union of England and Scotland (Charles I as the Prince of Wales), 1630
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
19 works by Peter Paul Rubens
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
7 works
National Gallery, London, UK
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
St. Catherine of Alexandria, etching
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
The Holy Family with St. Anne, ca.1635
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Entombment, ca.1615
Cimon and Pero, ca.1630
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
6 works by Peter Paul Rubens online
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Hero and Leander
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
A Roman Couple
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
The Judgment of Paris
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
2 works
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Finding of Erichthonius
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Head of an Old Man, drawing
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Hygieia, Goddess of Health, Feeding the Serpent, chalk drawing, ca.1614-15
Art Fund for UK Museums
9 works
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Constantine investing his son Crispus with command of the fleet, 1622
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive
Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive
The Road to Calvary
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Head of a Young Man, 1601-02
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Bonnefanten Museum, Netherlands NEW!
(click "english" at the top of the page to switch the language from Dutch)
Jan Neyen, 1607
Bonnefanten Museum, Netherlands NEW!
(click "english" at the top of the page to switch the language from Dutch)
Cimon and Pero, 1630-40
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) NEW!
The Death of Dido, pen and brown ink, 1600-03
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
(You may need to click "I accept these terms")
Samson and Delilah
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, ca.1629-30
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Isabella Brant
The Feast of Herod
Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus
Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Hunt
Bear Hunt
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
100 works by or related to the artist
Cummer Museum of Art
The Lamentation of Christ, ca.1605
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Study Heads Of An Old Man
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Study Heads of An Old Man
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
11 paintings
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
St. Augustine, 1620
Flemish Art Collection
The Adoration of the Magi, 1624-26
Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Young Woman with Folded Hands
Three Women Holding Garlands
Frick Collection, New York City
A Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Galleria Borghese, Rome
The Deposition
St Sebastian Cared for by the Angels
Glasgow Museums, Scotland NEW!
Nature and Her Followers
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Germany (in German)
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Head of a Negro, ca.1620
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
62 paintings - click on "Groupe suivant" to see page 2 of search results
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
You must type "rubens" into the top left search box and click the "GO" button
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Maidens
The Duke of Buckingham
Koninklijk Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium (in Dutch)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland NEW!
Alphabetically under "R"
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France (in French)
Vierge à l'Enfant et portraits des donateurs
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Marche Region Museums, Italy
Adoration of the Shepherds
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Massachusetts
Charity Enlightening the World
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
The Reconciliation of King Henry III and Henry of Navarre
Ulysses Landing on the Island of the Phaeacians
Moravian Gallery Brno, Czech Republic
Head of Medusa (with Frans Snyders)
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Christ Crucified between Two Thieves, ca.1635
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
Tête et pieds d'un enfant, drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (partly in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Descent from the Cross, drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
La Chasse au tigre (The Tiger Hunt)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France (in French)
4 paintings
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Tête et pieds d'un enfant, 1615
Musei Civici di Fermo, Marche Region, Italy (in Italian)
Adorazione dei pastori
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Portrait of Helena Fourment
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam NEW!
Museum Bredius, Netherlands
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Venus and Adonis, ca.1610
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
The Assumption of the Virgin Mary, ca.1616/18 (in TIFF format)
Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France (in French)
L'Adoration des mages
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
See the SECOND Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
Pan and Syrinx, ca.1617 (with Jan Brueghel)
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
The Flight into Egypt
National Museum of Art of Romania
Portrait of a Lady, 1606-08
National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid, Spain
Democritus and Heraclitus
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Aeneas in the Underworld
National Museums Liverpool, UK
The Virgin and Child
National Museums Liverpool, UK
God creating Adam, after Michelangelo, 1601/02
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
The Bacchanalia on Andros
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
Decius Mus consulting the Auspices, 1617
Our Lady’s Cathedral of Antwerp, Belgium NEW!
4 paintings by Peter Paul Rubens
Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
The Three Graces (with Jan Bruegel II)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
11 works by Peter Paul Rubens online
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Seated Nude Youth, chalk drawing
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Angel Blowing a Trumpet, chalk drawing
Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome (in Italian)
Romolo e Remo
Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
Girl and Satyr with Fruit-basket
Allegory on Charles V as Ruler of the World
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
8 paintings online
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Rubens: A Genius at Work"
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
About 25 works by Rubens' own hand, as well as a variety of related works
Rubens House, Antwerp, Belgium
Information on the artist and a few works from the collection
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Marquis Ambrogio Spinola, ca.1630
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection
San Diego Museum of Art, California
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "R"
San Diego Museum of Art, California - Provenance Research Project
Allegory of Eternity, ca.1625-30
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
State Museums of Berlin NEW!
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Abbed Yrsselius, ca.1624
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2002-2003 exhibition
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Portrait of Madame de Vicq
The Albertina, Vienna (in German)
6 works online
The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania
The Incarnation as Fulfillment of All the Prophecies, ca.1628-29
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
Presumed portrait of the Marchesa Veronica Spinola Doria
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
9 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
6 paintings online
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Portrait of a Young Man in Armor
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The Crowning of Saint Catherine
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Tyne & Wear Museums Zoomable Database, England NEW!
University of Delaware Library
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Pallas and Arachne, 1636-37
Virtual Uffizi
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Juno and Argus (with detail images)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Selbstbildnis im Kreise der Mantuaner Freunde, ca.1604
Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 887
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Portrait of a Chambermaid
Artonline
CGFA
Insecula
National Fine Art Education Digital Collection, UK
Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Aiwaz Panopticon NEW!
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
ImageNETion
Olga's Gallery
The Athenaeum
2 works online by Rubens
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Web Sites About the Artist:
Rubens Online (in Dutch)
Other Web Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Rubens drawings in New York (7 works online)
Austria Police (in German)
Large but black-and-white scan of a painting stolen from Rohrau Castle in April 2006
Beloit College Department of Classics
The Judgement of Paris
Beloit College Department of Classics
Drunken Silenus
Capella Academica, Vienna (in German) NEW!
Interpol Stolen Works of Art
Seneca, stolen by armed robbers from a museum in Serbia and Montenegro
Sotheby's
Massacre of the Innocents, recently auctioned for $76.7M
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
The National Ossolinski Institute
Portrait of Prince Lorenzo de Medici, 1620S
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Peter Paul Rubens
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Artcyclopedia
"Rubens and his Age"
ARTnews
Annunciation (detail of cat), ca.1628
International Herald Tribune
"Light in the Darkest of Times," article by Roderick Conway Morris
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Susanna Lunden ("The Straw Hat")
Time Magazine
"Rubens, the Grand Inseminator", 1975 article by Robert Hughes
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