Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels | |
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Artist | David Teniers the Younger |
Year | 1651 |
Dimensions | 127 cm (50 in) × 163.8 cm (64.5 in) |
Location | Petworth House |
Collection | Petworth House |
Accession No. | 486159 |
Identifiers | RKDimages ID: 232902 Art UK artwork ID: the-brussels-picture-gallery-of-the-archduke-leopold-wilhelm-of-austria-16141662-219668 |
Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels is a 1651 painting of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm's Italian art collection by the Flemish Baroque painter David Teniers the Younger, now held in Petworth House in England. [1]
The painting shows the Archduke as a collector with friends admiring a set of paintings. The artist himself is showing his patron and Anton Triest, Bishop of Ghent, an example of a Pieta by Carracci. However, the bishop is not looking at the painting, but at his protector the Archduke. In 1651 the bishop held fallen into disfavor in Rome for Jansenism. On the advice of the archduke he read a letter from Rome denouncing Jansenism to his congregation in 1652, but in 1653 he was suspended until he wrote the Pope for forgiveness later that year. The bishop is identifiable from other portraits made at the time:
The paintings are arranged in rows on a rear wall, with several others on the side of the vestibule on the left, and a set that are positioned in the foreground leaning against chairs for inspection.
This painting is one of the first that David Teniers the Younger prepared to document the Archduke's collection before he employed 12 engravers to publish his Theatrum Pictorium , considered the "first illustrated art catalog". He published this book of engravings after the Archduke had moved to Austria and taken his collection with him. It was published in Antwerp in 1659 and again in 1673. [2] Another version of this painting, with the figures arranged differently, is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
The following is a list of the recognizable paintings of the collection, not all of which were included in the Italian catalog prepared by Teniers, which was a selection of 243 of the most prized paintings out of a collection of 1300-1400 pieces. Many are still in the Viennese collection. Here is a list of the paintings depicted, which starts with the paintings on the rear wall, running from left to right and from top to bottom. Next listed are the paintings on the left vestibule, and finally the paintings in the foreground propped against chairs:
image | article | painter | year | collection | inventory nr. | catalog code |
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The Three Philosophers | Giorgione | 1500s | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_111 | 20 | |
Adoration of the Kings | Paolo Veronese | 1585 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_1515 | 123 | |
Visitation | Palma Vecchio | 1522 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_56 | 208 | |
The Death of Actaeon | Titian | 1559 | National Gallery | NG6420 | 73 | |
Cain and Abel (lost?) | 202 | |||||
Raising the Young Man of Nain | Paolo Veronese | 1560s | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_52 | 124 | |
Carrying Lazarus | Il Pordenone | before 1551 | Prague Castle Picture Gallery | 110 | ||
Carrying the Cross (led by a man on horseback) | Giovanni Cariani | 166 | ||||
Holy family with donors | unknown | |||||
John the Baptist | Palma Vecchio | 1527 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_2158 | ||
St. Hieronymous | Dosso Dossi | 1620s | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_263 | 232 | |
Holy family with St Anne and St John | Andrea Schiavone | 1552 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_325 | ||
The Good Samaritan | Francesco Bassano the Younger | 1575 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_12 | 152 | |
Christ in a Landscape | Tintoretto | 100 | ||||
Holy Family with Sts Catherine and Barbara and John the Baptist | Palma Vecchio | 1521 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_60 | 206 | |
Madonna with child and Saints | Titian | 1520s | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_93 | 68 | |
Judith with the head of Holofernes | Carlo Saraceni | 1613 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_41 | 39 | |
Pieta | Andrea Schiavone | c. 1550 | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister | Gal.-Nr. 274 | 133 | |
Madonna of the Cherries | Titian | 1516 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_118 | 62 | |
Holy Family with St. John | Palma Vecchio | 1520 | Uffizi | 950 | ||
Christ and the Adulteress | Titian | 1520 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_114 | 67 | |
Jesus among the Doctors of the Faith | Jusepe Ribera | 1630 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_326 | 141 | |
Christ carrying the cross meets Veronica | Jacopo Bassano | 144 | ||||
Portrait of a Bearded Man | manner of Titian | c. 1560 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_315 | 53 | |
Portrait of a White-Bearded Man, subject of Old Masters (novel) | Tintoretto | 1570 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_25 | 103 | |
Orator Giovanni Pietro Maffei | Giovanni Battista Moroni | 1560 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_88 | 230 | |
Ecce Homo | Titian | 1550s | Brukenthal National Museum | 3186 | 78 | |
Mater Dolorosa (pendant of Ecce Homo) | Alessandro Varotari | 1550s | unknown | 239 | ||
hidden portrait | unknown | |||||
hidden portrait | unknown | |||||
Portrait of Cecilia Gozzadini | Parmigianino | 1530 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_327 | ||
hidden portrait | unknown | |||||
hidden portrait | unknown | |||||
Self-portrait | Titian | 1550 | Gemäldegalerie | 163 | ||
Portrait of Gian Giacomo Bartolotti da Parma | Titian | 1520 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_94 | 57 | |
Violin Player | Giorgione | 1500s | 15 | |||
hidden portrait | unknown | |||||
Portrait of Fabrizio Salvaresio | Titian | 1558 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_1605 | 89 | |
Portrait of Jacopo Strada | Titian | 1567 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_81 | 92 | |
Cain Kills Abel | Bartolomeo Manfredi | c 1600 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_363 | ||
Saint Catherine | Venetian painter | 1625 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_59 | 58 | |
Little Tambourine Player | Venetian painter | 1510 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_96 | 80 | |
Young Woman in Green Dress | Palma Vecchio | 1513 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_66 | 196 | |
Tobit and Tobias burying the dead Israelite | David Teniers the Younger after Domenico Fetti | 1656 | Courtauld Gallery | P.1978.PG.434 | 216 | |
Old Man looking Up (oval) | Guido Reni | 1637 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_243 | 226 | |
Portrait of a man with a book | Vincenzo Catena | 1520 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_87 | 242 | |
Violante | Titian | 1515s | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_65 | 194 | |
The Bravo | Titian | 1520 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_64 | 23 | |
Pietà | Annibale Carracci | 1603 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_230 | 40 | |
Unknown landscape | unknown | |||||
Saint Margaret and the Dragon | Raphael | 1518 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | GG_171 | 2 | |
Esther before Ahasuerus | Paolo Veronese | 1555 | Uffizi | 912 | 125 |
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