Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Painting Gallery in Brussels (Prado)

The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Painting Gallery in Brussels
The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Painting Gallery in Brussels
Artist	David Teniers the Younger
Year	1647-1651
Medium	oil on copper
Dimensions	104.8 cm × 130.4 cm (41.3 in × 51.3 in)
Location	Prado Museum, Madrid

The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Painting Gallery 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 the Prado in Madrid.^[1]

Description

The painting shows the Archduke as a collector with friends admiring a set of paintings. The artist himself is standing at a table inspecting engravings. The paintings are arranged in rows on rear walls, with more visible through a central doorway, and a set that are positioned in the foreground leaning against chairs for inspection.

History

This painting is one of a set 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]

The Archduke commissioned this painting as a gift for Philip IV of Spain, possibly to show off the magnificence of his Brussels gallery after his recent Italian painting acquisitions from the estate sale of the Duke of Hamilton.^[1]

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 in the foreground propped against chairs:

article	painter	year	collection	inventory nr.	catalog code
Nymph and Shepherd	Titian	1570s	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_1825	60
Judith with the head of Holofernes	Alessandro Varotari	1630s	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_80	37
Diana and Callisto	Titian	1568	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_71	96
Portrait of Francesco Donato	David Teniers the Younger	1650s	Museo del Prado	P07615	98
Danaë	Titian	1554	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_90	74
David with the Head of Goliath	Giorgione	1510	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_74	25
Penitent St. Peter	Jusepe de Ribera	1630s	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_345	142
Aeneas called away from Dido	Andrea Schiavone	1655	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_5816	137
Tobit and the Dead Israelite	David Teniers the Younger after Domenico Fetti	1650s	Courtauld Gallery	P.1978.PG.434	214
unknown
Aeneas Takes Leave of Dido	Andrea Schiavone	1555	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_5818	135
Adoration of the Kings	Paolo Veronese	1585	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_1515	123
Descent from the Cross	Tintoretto	1547	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_1565	109
Raising the Young Man of Nain	Paolo Veronese	1560s	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_52	124
Laura	Giorgione	1506s	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_31
Portrait of a man	unknown
Burial	Domenico Fetti
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Titian)	Titian		Longleat		62
Left panel San Cassiano Altarpiece	Antonello da Messina	1475	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_7727	4
Lady with an Ermine	Titian				94
The Good Samaritan	Francesco Bassano the Younger	1575	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_12	152
Toilet of Venus	David Teniers the Younger	1655	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Cat. 696	30
Scipio Africanus	Andrea Schiavone	1555	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_1558	138
Christ and the Adulteress	Titian	1520	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_114	67
Young Woman in Green Dress	Palma Vecchio	1513	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_66	196
Shepherds and Sheep	David Teniers the Younger	1650s	Metropolitan Museum of Art	89.15.22
Portrait of Giorgione?
Portrait of Titian?
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci?
Portrait of an unknown man in a fur coat

Venus and Cupid	Paris Bordone	1545–1550	National Museum in Warsaw	M.Ob.628	211
The Circumcision	Rubens	1605	Chiesa del Gesù e dei Santi Ambrogio e Andrea church, Genoa
The Three Philosophers	Giorgione	1500s	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_111	20
Portrait of an unknown man in a fur coat
Saint Luke painting the Virgin	Jan Gossaert	1510s	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_894
Saint Sebastian	Paolo Veronese	1565	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_1538	114
Saint Margaret and the Dragon	Raphael	1518	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_171	2
Woman with a Mirror	Titian	1515	Louvre	INV 755
Violante	Titian	1515s	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_65	194
Central panel San Cassiano Altarpiece	Antonello da Messina	1475	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_2574	5
Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia as a nun	Anthony van Dyck	1627	Kunsthistorisches Museum	GG_496