''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 David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile arti ...

, now in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. 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 Adriaen de Vries (c.1556–1626) was a Northern Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands but working in Central Europe, whose international style crossed the threshold to the Baroque; he excelled in refined modelling and bronze casting and ...

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

prepared to document the Archduke's collection before he employed 12 engravers to publish his ''

Theatrum Pictorium ''Theatrum Pictorium'', or ''Theatre of Painting'', is a short-hand name of a book published in the 1660s by David Teniers the Younger for his employer, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. It was a catalog of 243 Italian paintings in the Ar ...

'', 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

, 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.

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 The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. It is among the most prestigious specialist coll ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels 1650s paintings Paintings in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Paintings in the collection of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria Paintings of art galleries Paintings in the Musée Oldmasters Paintings by David Teniers the Younger