# Gallery of a Collector [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BAELLIEUR, Cornelis de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on oak, 115 x 148 cm ## Commentary Gallery of a Collector c. 1635 Oil on oak, 115 x 148 cm Liechtenstein Collections, Vaduz-Vienna The early types of the painted collections of cabinet pieces had been developed by Frans Francken II in the early 17th century. Hans Jordaens and Cornelis de Baellieur succeeded him in this metier. The depictions of art and curiosity cabinets show galleries owned by well-known collectors, but usually the owners were anonymous or fictive. The gallery interior in this picture was painted by Jordaens, the figures by Baellieur. The principal paintings depicted, "King Midas' Feast" and the "Allegory of Painting", were most probably executed by Francken himself. ## Related artworks - [Interior of a Collector's Gallery of Paintings and Objets d'Art]() - [Virgin and Child Enthroned]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()