Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (Brussels)

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 in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.[1]

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria in his Gallery
ArtistDavid Teniers the Younger 
Year1651
Dimensions96 cm (38 in) × 129 cm (51 in)
LocationRoyal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Accession No.2569 
IdentifiersBildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID: 20040951

The painting shows the Archduke as a collector admiring a set of prints on a table. The table has been documented as a creation of the sculptor Adriaen de Vries depicting Ganymede. The artist himself is showing his patron an example of a print. The paintings are arranged in rows on a rear wall, and 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]

This painting was purchased for the museum's collection in 1873 from J. Nieuwenhuys in Brussels.

List of paintings depicted

The following list is of the recognisable 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. The list begins with the paintings on the rear wall, running from left to right and from top to bottom.

image article painter year collection inventory nr. catalog code
 Lady with Long Hair Palma Vecchio
Portrait of Jacopo Strada Titian 1567 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_81 92
 Portrait of an unknown man Titian 55
 Judith with the head of Holofernes Carlo Saraceni 1613 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_41 39
 The Death of Actaeon Titian 1559 National Gallery NG6420 73
Danaë Titian? Different to any surviving version GG_90 74
 The Three Philosophers Giorgione 1500s Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_111 20
 Descent from the Cross Tintoretto 1547 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_1565 109
 Lamentation Palma il Giovane 1600s Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_2
unknown
Aeneas Takes Leave of Dido Andrea Schiavone 1555 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_5818 135
Landscape
Saint Margaret and the Dragon Raphael 1518 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_171 2
Ascension?
Adoration of the Kings Paolo Veronese 1585 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_1515 123
 Raising the Young Man of Nain Paolo Veronese 1560s Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_52 124
 Blind Leading the Blind Domenico Fetti 1620s Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 644 215
 Pietà Annibale Carracci 1603 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_230 40
 Shepherds and Sheep one of the Bassani, whereabouts unknown, possibly Tenier's copy is shown 1650s Metropolitan Museum of Art 89.15.22
Unknown
Holy Family with Mary Magdalene Palma Vecchio 1520-1525 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_2161
Portrait of Cecilia Gozzadini Parmigianino 1530 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_327
Madonna and Child
Adoration of the Magi
St Dominic and St Ursula Antonello da Messina (copy by David Teniers the Younger) private collection
Scenes from the Life of Christ
Portrait of a man in a beret Jan van Scorel or Maarten van Heemskerck before 1575 unknown
Portrait of a man
Marius Curius Dentatus Andrea Schiavone 1555/1560 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_1568
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References
  1. Aartshertog Leopold Willem in zijn galerij Italiaanse schilderijen in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium collection
  2. Online version of the Theatrum Pictorium, 1673

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