''Archduke Leopold Wilhelm and the artist in the archducal picture gallery in Brussels'' is a 1653 painting of

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's Italian art collection by the Flemish Baroque painter

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, now held in the collection of

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.La visita del Archiduque Leopoldo Guillermo a su gabinete, acompañado de David Teniers el joven
on museum website The painting shows the Archduke as a collector with friends admiring a set of paintings. The artist himself holds his hat in his hand and is listening to his patron as the archduke gestures with his cane towards some recent acquisitions. The paintings are arranged in rows on the walls of an L-shaped room, with the men standing in front of a doorway with the sculpted portrait of the archduke. Another set of paintings are positioned in the foreground leaning against chairs for inspection. This painting is dated 1653 and was painted after earlier, larger versions that

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

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'', 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 The most impressive of these gallery paintings was the large version on copper in the

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with a different selection of paintings. That was produced as a gift from the archduke to

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Paintings depicted

Many of the recognizable paintings in the collection, not all of which were included in the Italian catalog prepared by Teniers, are still in the Viennese collection. This copy was probably produced as a gift in tandem with a similar version formerly in the

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collection.

References

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in the

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David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting
exhibition 19 October 2006 to 21 January 2007 on website of the

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