Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2013.

The Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia

ArtistAttributed to Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

CultureFlemish

Dateca. 1616

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions47 1/2 × 38 in. (120.7 × 96.5 cm)
Overall, Frame: 59 3/8 × 49 5/8 × 5 in. (150.8 × 126 × 12.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.462

Collections

European Art before 1945

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 206

DescriptionThis is an oil on canvas painting. It is almost a full-length portrait of a woman of royalty. Her gaze is turned leftward, past the viewers. She is formally dressed in black with a very wide lace collar. The cuffs of her sleeves are also extremely wide and white. In her left hand is a handkerchief. She wears ornaments and pearls in her hair, pearl earrings, and several strands of heavy pearls around her neck beneath the wide white collar. She also wears a gold cross necklace and a very large enameled medallion pinned to her dress. Her hair is reddish brown.

Label TextPeter Paul Rubens Flemish, 1577–1640 Portrait of the Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, ca. 1616 Oil on canvas Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.462 Exhibition History"Treasures from The Chrysler Museum at Norfolk and Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, Tenn., June 12 - September 5, 1977. (Exh. cat. no. 5) "Rubens- Portraits princiers," Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France, October 3, 2017 - January 15, 2017. “Becoming Famous: Peter Paul Rubens," Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, October 22, 2021 – February 20, 2022. Published ReferencesEric M. Zafran and Mario Amaya, _Treasures from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk and Walter P. Chrysler, Jr._, exh. cat., Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, Tenn., 1977, no. 5. Joost Vander Auwera, _Rubens: A Genius at Work_, exh.cat., Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, 2008, 248, fig. 2. Don Harrison, "Art Unveiled," _Coastal Virginia Magazine,_ April 2014, 50. Nils Büttner and Sandra-Kristin Diefenthaler, _Becoming Famous: Peter Paul Rubens_, exh. cat., Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in association with Sandstein Verlag, 2021, 38, cat. 11.