Vincenzo II Gonzaga, 7th Duke of Mantua (1594-1627)
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1604 - circa 1615
Materials
Oil on canvas laid down on panel
Measurements
673 x 572 mm (26 ½ x 22 ½ in)
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Saltram, Devon
NT 872186
Summary
Oil painting on canvas laid down on panel, Vincenzo II, Gonzaga, 7th Duke of Mantua (1594-1627) by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 – Antwerp 1640). Depicted aged approximately 10 years old.
Provenance
Acquired by Charles I when Prince of Wales, before 27 March 1625; recorded by Abraham van der Doort in a room between Breakfast Chamber and Long Gallery, Whitehall; Commonwealth inventory, 1649/50, no. 127; sold to the merchant ‘Major’ Edward Bass on 19 December 1651; (Sir) Ralph Bankes, at Gray's Inn, 1659; restituted to Charles II at Restoration; [...]; Saltram, 1819 and thereafter by descent; accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Government and transferred to the National Trust in 1957)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: bearing the cypher/brand of King Charles I on the back of the panel
Makers and roles
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), artist
Exhibition history
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and his work as a royal portrait artist,, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris , 2017 - 2018
References
Brockwell 1921 Maurice Brockwell, ‘A Newly discovered Rubens portrait’, Burlington Magazine, XXXIX, 1921, p.285 Jaffé 1961 M. Jaffé, ‘The Deceased young Duke of Mantua’s Brother’, Burlington Magazine, CIII, 1961, pp.374-78, fig.1. Saltram, Devon, 1967 The Saltram Collection, Plympton, Devon [National Trust; F. St. John Gore], 1967 Shawe-Taylor 2018: Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Per Rumberg (eds.), Charles I: King and Collector, (exh. cat.), Royal Academy of Arts, London: 2018, 12
