Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels (Petworth)

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Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels
Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels - Petworth House.jpg
Artist David Teniers the Younger   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Year1651
Dimensions127 cm (50 in) × 163.8 cm (64.5 in)
Location Petworth House
Collection Petworth House   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Accession No.486159  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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.

List of paintings depicted

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:

imagearticlepainteryearcollectioninventory nr.catalog code
Giorgione - Three Philosophers - Google Art Project.jpg
The Three Philosophers Giorgione 1500s Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_111 20
Veronese.AdorationMagi01.jpg
Adoration of the Kings Paolo Veronese 1585 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_1515 123
Palma il Vecchio 008.jpg
Visitation Palma Vecchio 1522 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_56 208
Actaeon.jpg
The Death of Actaeon Titian 1559 National Gallery NG6420 73
DAVID TENIERS EL JOVEN - El Archiduque Leopoldo Guillermo en su Galeria de Bruselas (Kunsthistorisches Museum de Viena, 1650-52. Oleo sobre lienzo, 123 x 163 cm) (cropped).jpg
Cain and Abel (lost?) 202
Paolo Veronese -- Erweckung des Junglings zu Nain -- 1560er -- KHM.jpg
Raising the Young Man of Nain Paolo Veronese 1560s Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_52 124
Pordenone - Carrying Lazarus.jpg
Carrying Lazarus Il Pordenone before 1551 Prague Castle Picture Gallery 110
Quirijn Boel - Carrying the Cross SVK-SNG.G 11965-167.jpg
Carrying the Cross (led by a man on horseback) Giovanni Cariani 166
Holy family with donorsunknown
Palma il Vecchio 012.jpg
John the Baptist Palma Vecchio 1527 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_2158
Dosso Dossi 009.jpg
St. Hieronymous Dosso Dossi 1620s Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_263 232
Schiavone 1.jpg
Holy family with St Anne and St John Andrea Schiavone 1552 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_325
Francesco Bassano - The Good Samaritan GG 12.jpg
The Good Samaritan Francesco Bassano the Younger 1575 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_12 152
Pieter van Liesebetten - SVK-SNG.G 11965-101.jpg
Christ in a Landscape Tintoretto 100
Palma il Vecchio 007.jpg
Holy Family with Sts Catherine and Barbara and John the Baptist Palma Vecchio 1521 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_60 206
Titian.Madonna with child and saints01.jpg
Madonna with child and Saints Titian 1520s Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_93 68
Carlo Saraceni 001.jpg
Judith with the head of Holofernes Carlo Saraceni 1613 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_41 39
Andrea Schiavone - Dead Christ supported by Angels.jpg
Pieta Andrea Schiavone c. 1550 Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Gal.-Nr. 274 133
Titian - Madonna of the Cherries - WGA22746.jpg
Madonna of the Cherries Titian 1516 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_118 62
Palma Vecchio-Holy Family with St. John - Uffizi.jpg
Holy Family with St. John Palma Vecchio 1520 Uffizi 950
Titian.Christ and Adulteress01.jpg
Christ and the Adulteress Titian 1520 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_114 67
Jesus and the doctors of the Faith dsc01783.jpg
Jesus among the Doctors of the Faith Jusepe Ribera 1630 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_326 141
Lucas Vorsterman - Christ carrying the cross meets Veronica SVK-SNG.G 11965-145.jpg
Christ carrying the cross meets Veronica Jacopo Bassano 144
Venetian painter - Portrait of a Bearded Man GG 315.jpg
Portrait of a Bearded Manmanner of Titian c. 1560 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_315 53
Jacopo Tintoretto 090.jpg
Portrait of a White-Bearded Man, subject of Old Masters (novel) Tintoretto 1570 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_25 103
Giovanni Battista Moroni 004.jpg
Orator Giovanni Pietro Maffei Giovanni Battista Moroni 1560 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_88 230
Ecce Homo by Titian.JPG
Ecce Homo Titian 1550s Brukenthal National Museum 3186 78
Jan van Troyen after Varotari - Mater Dolorosa SVK-SNG.G 11965-240.jpg
Mater Dolorosa (pendant of Ecce Homo) Alessandro Varotari 1550sunknown 239
hidden portraitunknown
hidden portraitunknown
Parmigianino 013.jpg
Portrait of Cecilia Gozzadini Parmigianino 1530 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_327
hidden portraitunknown
hidden portraitunknown
Self-portrait of Titian.jpg
Self-portrait Titian 1550 Gemäldegalerie 163
Titian.GianGiacomoBartolottidaParma01.jpg
Portrait of Gian Giacomo Bartolotti da Parma Titian 1520 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_94 57
Giorgione - Violin player.jpg
Violin Player Giorgione 1500s 15
hidden portraitunknown
Tizian 061.jpg
Portrait of Fabrizio Salvaresio Titian 1558 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_1605 89
Tizian - Bildnis des Jacopo de Strada.jpg
Portrait of Jacopo Strada Titian 1567 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_81 92
Bartolomeo Manfredi - Cain Kills Abel, c. 1615, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna).jpg
Cain Kills Abel Bartolomeo Manfredi c 1600 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_363
Venetian - Saint Catherine GG 59.jpg
Saint CatherineVenetian painter1625 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_59 58
Venetian - Little Tambourine Player GG 96.jpg
Little Tambourine PlayerVenetian painter1510 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_96 80
Palma il Vecchio 006.jpg
Young Woman in Green Dress Palma Vecchio 1513 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_66 196
David Teniers the Younger - Tobit and Tobias burying the dead Israelite.jpg
Tobit and Tobias burying the dead Israelite David Teniers the Younger after Domenico Fetti 1656 Courtauld Gallery P.1978.PG.434 216
Guido Reni 066.jpg
Old Man looking Up (oval) Guido Reni 1637 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_243 226
Vincenzo Catena 010.jpg
Portrait of a man with a book Vincenzo Catena 1520 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_87 242
Vecelli, Tiziano -Violante - 1515-1518.jpg
Violante Titian 1515s Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_65 194
Tiziano, i bravi.jpg
The Bravo Titian 1520 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_64 23
Annibale Carracci 006.jpg
Pietà Annibale Carracci 1603 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_230 40
Unknown landscapeunknown
Raffaello Santi gen. Raffael, , Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemaldegalerie - Hl. Margarete - GG 171 - Kunsthistorisches Museum.jpg
Saint Margaret and the Dragon Raphael 1518 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_171 2
Veronese - Esther before Ahasuerus.jpg
Esther before Ahasuerus Paolo Veronese 1555 Uffizi 912 125

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