Thursday, November 4, 2021

Nine More 17th-century Flemish Portrait Painters

Frans Pourbus the Younger
Marie de Medici, Queen of France
1616
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Cornelis de Vos
Portrait of the Artist with his Family
1621
oil on canvas
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Cornelis de Vos
Portrait of a Couple
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection, Rijswijk

Jacob van Oost the Elder
Portrait of a Young Man holding a Statuette
1629
oil on panel
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Jacob Jordaens
Portrait of Govaert van Surpele and his Wife
ca. 1636-38
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1635-40
oil on panel
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Peter Paul Rubens
Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel
ca. 1629-30
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Peter Paul Rubens
Isabella Brandt
ca. 1637
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Justus van Egmont
Queen Christina of Sweden as Minerva
before 1674
oil on canvas
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Justus van Egmont
Marie Louise Gonzaga, Queen of Poland
as a Nymph
1645
oil on canvas
National Museum, Warsaw

Gonzales Coques
Equestrian Portrait of a Couple
ca. 1660
oil on copper
private collection

Jacob Huysmans
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1660-65
oil on canvas
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Jakob Ferdinand Voet
Sir Thomas Isham
ca. 1678
oil on canvas
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

attributed to Jakob Ferdinand Voet
Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin
ca. 1676-80
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milan

Jakob Ferdinand Voet
Portrait of a Gentleman
1684
oil on canvas
Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara
 
Thursday

I have had my dreams – like others –
And it has come to nothing, so that
I remain now carelessly
With feet planted on the ground,
And look up at the sky –
Feeling my clothes about me,
The weight of my body in my shoes,
The rim of my hat, air passing in and out
At my nose – and decide to dream no more.

– William Carlos Williams (1919)