Upcoming Release: Corpus Rubenianum - Drawings Unrelated to Known Compositions
October 24 2025
Picture: brepols
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The next volume of the Corpus Rubenianum will focus on Drawings Unrelated to Known Compositions. It is due to be released in January 2026.
As the publisher's curious blurb explains:
This volume is an oddity in the Corpus Rubenianum. Rather than being devoted to one particular project, or category of subject, it presents what at first sight might appear a miscellany of drawings. The works discussed here are indeed united only in the circumstance that they have proved difficult to associate directly with any particular painting or project undertaken by Rubens – and, for the most part, they remain so. Many of these ‘unrelated’ sheets have been relegated to the margins of Rubens scholarship as a result of their ambiguous status, whether because of uncertainties regarding their attribution, their subject-matter or their function (or all three).
