Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels (Schleissheim)
article painter year collection inventory nr catalog code
The Three Philosophers Giorgione 1500s Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_111 20
Man with Ermine Coat Titian 1560 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_76 95
Portrait of Jacopo Strada Titian 1567 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_81 92
Judith with the head of Holofernes Carlo Saraceni 1613 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_41 39
Christ carrying the cross meets Veronica Jacopo Bassano 144
Dead Christ Supported by an Angel Palma il Giovane 1612 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_9394 179
Aeneas Takes Leave of Dido Andrea Schiavone 1555 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_5818 135
King Philip IV of Spain unknown 1653 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_324
Lady with an Ermine Titian 94
Portrait of a Man with Beret anonymous 1538 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_1552 56
Portrait of a White-Bearded Man Tintoretto Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_25 103
Portrait of Francesco Donato , Doge of Venice anonymous Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_3062 98
The Orator Giovan Pietro Maffeis ( ? ) ( 1533-1603 ) Giovanni Battista Moroni 1563 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_88 230
An Allegory of Spring David Teniers the Younger 1656 private collection 163
Arrest of Christ Bartolomeo Manfredi 1615 National Museum of Western Art 234
Pluto in his Chariot anonymous 1536 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_157 26
Ganymede Jan Swart van Groningen 1560 private collection 11
Boy with a Flute Francesco Bassano the Younger 1583 Kunsthistorisches Museum GG_8 150
Holy Family with St. John and Mary Magdalene Palma Vecchio 1520 Uffizi 950 205
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 at the top left , running from left to right and from top to bottom and continuing in the same way with the rear wall on the right .
Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels is a 17th-century painting of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm's Italian art collection by the Flemish Baroque painter David Teniers the Younger, now held in the Schleissheim Palace. The painting shows the Archduke as a collector pointing with his cane towards a few paintings propped against each other on the floor. Behind him is the artist wearing a gold chain and sword, the attributes of honor for his role as gallery director for the archduke. Above the door is a portrait of another patron of the artist, King Philip IV of Spain, and behind the large paintings on the right is a bust on a pedestal of Queen Christina of Sweden. On the left behind the table is an assistant holding a print. The table foot has been documented as a creation of the sculptor Adriaen de Vries depicting Ganymede. The paintings are arranged in rows on the walls, and is one of the paintings 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. In her catalog raisonné of Teniers' works, Margret Klinge dates this painting after 1654 because in the similar gallery painting dated 1653 his portrait does not show the keys, chain, and sword that he is shown wearing in the portrait by Philips Fruytiers dated 1655. Furthermore, the painting of The Three Philosophers and several other Italian paintings are painted in mirror image, which may indicate that he was working from his miniature copy rather than the original, which would have been a necessity after the Archduke left Brussels with his collection to return to Vienna in 1656.