# Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TENIERS, David the Younger]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on copper, 106 x 129 cm ## Commentary Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery c. 1647 Oil on copper, 106 x 129 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid David Teniers, court painter to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm Hapsburg, the Governor of Flanders, and keeper of his very fine collection of painting and sculpture, made several of these gallery portraits. The Archduke \(in tall hat\) is depicted showing to visitors the wealth of his pictures, most of them Venetian, almost half of them by Titian. Other Venetians represented are Giorgine, Antonello da Messina, Palma Vecchio, Tintoretto, Bassano and Veronese; also there are Mabuse, Holbein, Bernardo Strozzi, Guido Reni and Rubens. The sculpture supporting the table, representing Ganymede, is a bronze by Duquesnoy the Younger. Teniers himself is represented as the figure on the far left. It has been suggested that Velázquez borrowed the device of the half-open door at the back of this picture for his Las Meninas; at least Las Meninas can be understood as a similar picture, designed to illustrate the enlightened patronage of the patron and the corresponding pride of the court artist. The painting was presented to Philip IV of Spain by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm before 1653. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 19 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/19\_cent/mussorgsky\_exhibition\_excerpts.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Modest Mussorgsky: Picture from an Exhibition, arr. by Maurice Ravel \(excerpts\)</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [A Barn Interior]() - [A Cobbler in his Workshop]() - [A View of Het Sterckshof near Antwerp]() - [Apes in the Kitchen]() - [Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria in his Gallery]() - [Before the Inn]() - [Card Players]() - [Country Kermis]() - [Countryside Inn with Revellers \(detail\)]() - [Countryside Inn with Revellers]() - [Dulle Griet \(Mad Meg\)]() - [Elegant Company before a Pavilion in an Ornamental Garden \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()