# The Interior of a Picture Gallery with Connoisseurs Admiring Paintings [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FRANCKEN, Frans II]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 71 x 104 cm ## Commentary Depictions of galleries, both real and fictional, were quite popular in the first half of the seventeenth century, in large part due to their promotion by Francken and Jan Brueghel the Elder. The present picture is an imagined recreation of a collector's cabinet in Flanders. The room is filled with a plethora of objects that illustrate the collector's eclectic and worldly taste. Various objets d'art, jewelry, shells, flowers, and a variety of paintings, both identifiable and in the general style of contemporary Flemish artists fill the room. ## Related artworks - [Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels, 25 October 1555,]() - [An Antique Dealer's Gallery]() - [Arcadia: a Pastoral Landscape]() - [Art Room \(detail\)]() - [Art Room]() - [Ballroom Scene at a Court in Brussels]() - [Christ in the Garden of Olives]() - [Croesus Showing his Riches to Solon]() - [Crucifixion of St Andrew]() - [Feast of Esther]() - [Sebastiaan Leerse in his Gallery]() - [Supper at the House of Burgomaster Rockox]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()