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| Keywords: Jan Brueghel the Elder - The Archdukes Albert and Isabella Visiting a Collector's Cabinet - Walters 372010.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Jan Brueghel I Creator Hieronymus Francken II This painting of a private gallery or cabinet of a Flemish collector depicts a visit by Archdukes Albert and Isabella the Habsburg governors of the Southern Netherlands Isabella is seated while her husband stands to her right and their unidentified host behind The walls are covered with paintings by Flemish artists The sculpture displayed throughout is from various schools but includes the bronze Allegory of Architecture by Giambologna a Flemish sculptor who made his fortune in Florence A painted Allegory of Iconoclasm depicting people who destroy art as animals rests against a chair Visitors examining paintings and objects on the tables draw the viewer's attention to these objects as well as shells and a stuffed bird of paradise from the Spice Islands Pets include a monkey kept out of mischief on a chain and a dog apparently with two heads an alteration by the artist that has bled through The globe-like object on the table at the left is one of Cornelis Drebbels' attempts at a perpetual-motion clock; the principles which ran it are now lost Depictions of art collections were a specialty of Antwerp painters Albert's and Isabella's role as rulers and patrons of the arts is celebrated here in an unprecedented way The immense vase of flowers by Jan Brueghel the greatest Flemish flower painter is crowned by a large sunflower This South American flower which could grow to be 14 feet tall and could turn toward the sun was first seen by Europeans in the mid-1500s It had been illustrated as a New World wonder in botanical treatises but this is its earliest inclusion in a painting and its earliest use as a symbol of princely patronage In turning to the sun but here toward Albert and Isabella it symbolizes the way that the arts grow and blossom in the light and warmth of princely patronage ca 1621 1623 oil on panel cm 94 123 3 accession number 37 2010 14623 J P Morgan New York date and mode of acquisition unknown L Satterlee New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Parke Bernet Galleries New York April 22 1948 no 25 Walters Art Museum 1948 by purchase Museum purchase 1948 World of Wonder Walters Salute to Belgium The Allure of Bronze The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995 Going for Baroque The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 A Collector's Cabinet National Gallery of Art Washington 1998 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 Devices of Wonder From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen J Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles 2001-2002 place of origin Antwerp Belgium Q7714179 Walters Art Museum license 2D DEFAULTSORT Archduke Gallery paintings by Hieronymus Francken II Jan Brueghel I World of Wonder Walters Salute to Belgium Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Off the Wall Baltimore Albert VII Archduke of Austria Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain People with dogs in art 17th-century culture sciences and education in painting 1620s paintings in the United States 17th-century greyhounds in art Greyhounds in art with aristocrats | ||||
