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Portrait of the Emperor Charles V (after Titian)

Maker

(Artists)
1577-1640

After
(artist)
1488-1576

Title

Portrait of the Emperor Charles V (after Titian)

Date of Production

1603

Medium

oil on canvas (cut down)

Dimensions

Height: 76.3 cm (canvas)
Width: 56.6 cm (canvas)

Accession Number

P.1978.PG.351

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords









Label Text

Rubens was the official painter to members of the Habsburg dynasty. He made a particular study of portraits of their great ancestor, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, by the sixteenth-century Venetian painter Titian, an artist he particularly admired. This canvas records Titian’s first portrait of Charles V (now lost). The Emperor is depicted as a knight, in full armour.

Provenance

Probably no. 79 (as by Van Dyck) in inventory compiled after Rubens' death; probably Antoine van Leyen (1628-86), Antwerp; Prince Belosselsky, Russia, shortly before 1936; acquired by Count Seilern, London, 1936; Princes Gate Bequest 1978.

Exhibition History

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Musée de Luxembourg, Paris, 03/10/2017-15/01/2018

Rubens Triumph - Krieg-Politik-Malerei, Von der Heydt Museum & Wuppertal & Germany, 14/10/2012-28/02/2013

Looking and Admiring Rubens in competition with Old Masters, Alte Pinakothek & Munich & Germany, 21/10/2009-03/02/2010 ...More

Titien - Le pouvoir en face, Musée de Luxembourg, Paris, 13/09/2006-21/01/2007

Rubens - Drawing on Italy, Nottingham & England, 20/09/2002-08/12/2002

Rubens - Drawing on Italy, Edinburgh & Scotland, 28/05/2002-18/08/2002

Rubens and Italy, National Gallery of Victoria & Melborne & Australia, 29/06/1992-30/08/1992

Rubens and Italy, National Gallery of Australia & Canberra & Australia, 28/03/1992-08/06/1992 ...Less

Literature

Jaffé, Michael, Rubens and Italy, Oxford 1977
p. 69
Fig. p. pl. 220?

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