On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P01684
- Author
- Brueghel “the Elder,” Jan (Flemish); Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish)
- Title
- The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia
- Chronology
- Ca. 1615
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 102 cm x 173 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- No
- Entrance
- COLECCION REAL
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
Like the portrait of her husband
(P1683), Isabel Clara Eugenia,
ruler of the Low Countries, is
depicted sitting under a red canopy
on a balcony open to landscape. In
this case, the palace visible in
the distance is Mariemont, one of
the Infanta's favorites, which she
had remodeled.
The style of her clothing,
especially the collar, date this
work from the beginning of the
second decade of the seventeenth
century, a moment of maximum
collaboration between Rubens, who
painted her figure, and Brueghel,
who made the landscape. Both of
them worked as painters for the
Archduke and Dutchess and it was
through paintings like these that
they communicated the magnificence
of their patron's rule.
