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The Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia
Artist: Attributed to
Peter Paul Rubens
(Flemish, 1577-1640)
Date: ca. 1616
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
47 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)
Classification: European art
Credit Line: Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number: 71.462
Terms
- Woman
- Royalty
In Collection(s)
Not on view
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.
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.
"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.
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
Flemish, 1577–1640
Portrait of the Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, ca. 1616
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.462
Published References
Eric 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.
