Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels (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.Aartshertog Leopold Willem in zijn galerij Italiaanse schilderijen in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium collection

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.Online version of the Theatrum Pictorium, 1673

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.

imagearticlepainteryearcollectioninventory 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 Giovanni Bellini 1480-1485 National Gallery of Art 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

References

Sources David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting, exhibition 19 October 2006 to 21 January 2007 on website of the Courtauld Institute of Art