Portrait of the Emperor Charles V (after Titian)
Maker
(Artists)
1577-1640
After
(artist)
1488-1576
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)
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
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?
p. 69
Fig. p. pl. 220?
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