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Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione

Maker

(Artists)
1577-1640

After
(Artists)
1483-1520

Title

Date of Production

1630

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

Height: 90.2 cm (panel)
Width: 67.5 cm (panel)

Accession Number

P.1978.PG.373

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

Keywords

Label Text

This is a copy by Peter Paul Rubens of a renowned portrait of the Italian author and diplomat Baldassare Castiglione. The original was painted by the Renaissance artist Raphael around 1514 and is now in the Louvre Museum, Paris. Rubens could have seen it in Italy or Amsterdam, where the painting was by 1630. However, it is more likely that he worked from other copies or prints. Rubens probably painted this work as a homage to the original portrait, but also as a form of artistic rivalry with Raphael.

Provenance

Inventory after Rubens' death, no. 78; P. de Boer, Amsterdam, from whom acquired by Seilern in 1936; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

National Gallery (permanent display during closure), National Gallery, London, 14/09/2018-03/09/2021

The Second Hand Re-worked: Art Then and Now, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-19/07/2015

Literature

Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640. Katalog 1 Rubens in Italien: Gemälde, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen; Triumph der Eucharistie: Wandteppiche aus dem Kölner Dom, Wallraf Richartz Museum, Cologne, 1977
p. 53
in file for PG.427

Jaffé, Michael, Rubens and Italy, Oxford 1977
p. 27
Fig. p. pl. 49

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : mark : back of panel : brand of Antwerp guild :

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