Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels (Petworth)

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]

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels
ArtistDavid Teniers the Younger 
Year1651
Dimensions127 cm (50 in) × 163.8 cm (64.5 in)
LocationPetworth House
IdentifiersRKDimages ID: 232902
Art UK artwork ID: the-brussels-picture-gallery-of-the-archduke-leopold-wilhelm-of-austria-16141662-219668

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:

  • Portrait of the bishop by David Teniers the Younger in 1652
  • Copy of a portrait by Anthony van Dyck

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:

image article painter year collection inventory nr. catalog code
 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

References
  1. NT 486159 in the National Trust collection
  2. Online version of the Theatrum Pictorium, 1673
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