print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1884,0112.49
- Description
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Plate 18: Frederick III and Albert II with Mars Ultor and Ceres; at centre stands the statue of Frederick III, crowned and wearing a tunic and mantle, pointing his sceptre; at the far right stands the statue of Albert II, also holding a sceptre and wearing his crown and a full suit of armour beneath his tunic and mantle; between them is the term of Ceres, holding sheaves of grain in the folds of her tunic; at the far left is the term of Mars Ultor with his sword and trophy mounted on a spear; unsigned; after Peter Paul Rubens; illustration for Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus" (Antwerp, 1641)
Etching
- Production date
- 1635-1641 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 307 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Height: 649 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 381 millimetres
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Width: 543 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a series of forty-three plates illustrating Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus"; for additional comments see 1884,0112.31. For a panoramic view of portico see 1884,0112.47. Frederick III, called "the Fair", was crowned German king in 1314. Van Thulden's etching omits the orb that is clearly shown at the figure's feet in Rubens' oil sketch (Hermitage, Leningrad). Albert II succeeded his father-in-law Sigismund as German king in 1483. Two chalk drawings of Frederick III and Albert II (Rubenshuis) are copies after Van Thulden's etching.
The actual gilded stone statues of the gallery were contracted to five sculptors, including Huibrecht van den Eynden and Sebastiaan de Neve, and the gilder Louis Vergouwen and his assistants. They stood over life-size at two and a half metres in height. After the Entry they were cleaned and presented to Ferdinand as a gift. Formerly in the Palace in Brussels, they were all destroyed by fire in 1731.
Lit.: John Rupert Martin, The Decorations for the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, Corpus Rubenianum XVI, London, 1972, pp. 110-112,116-119; cats. 24-25a.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Entry of Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria into Antwerp 1635 (17 April)
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Pompa Introitus Honori Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi (Antwerp, 1641)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Acquisition notes
- For comments see 1884,0112.31.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1884,0112.49
