Portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1640-1662), bust-length, in armour (recto); Studies for a Venus and Adonis after Titian (verso)

Details

Flemish School, circa 1650
Portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1640-1662), bust-length, in armour (recto); Studies for a Venus and Adonis after Titian (verso)
with inscription 'van dick' and numbered '17'
black, red and white chalk (recto and verso); pen and brown ink (verso), watermark grapes
277 x 214 mm.

Provenance

E. Joseph-Rignault (L. 2218); Paris, 26 May 1937, lot 52 (as School of Van Dyck).

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Lot Essay

A portrait of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, younger son of Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria, by Jan van den Hoecke, in similar costume and format but turned to the right, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, G. Heinz and K. Schütz, Porträtgalerie zur Geschichte Österreichs von 1400 bis 1800, Vienna, 1976, no. 116, pl. 177.
Leopold Wilhelm was Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1647 to 1656.

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