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JÚLIA TÁTRAI AND LÁSZLO LENGYEL: Archduke Albert († 1621) on the Catafalque: A Picture of Old-New Acquisition
Watercolour by Archduchess Maria Christina (1742-1798) depicting the archducal couple around 1780, during their period of governing the Austrian Netherlands. The portrait depicts Albert sitting by a writing desk and next to him is Maria Christina dressed in the attire of the Franciscan Third Order. (In the collection of Charlotte von Habsburg-Lotharingen, Switzerland.) Banz 2000, 96-106. For the patron saints of the archducal couple see J. R. Martin, The Ceiling Paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part I, Brussels 1968, 208-12. Its official name is now Secular Franciscan Order and it has about halfa million avowed members. For more details about the history of the order see Albert Wolsky, "A ferences Világi Rend" [Secular Franciscan Order], Vigília, September 7, 2005. L. Hymans quotes Puteanus, Bruxelles à travers les ages, I, Brussels 1882, 364. For Isabella's ties to the Franciscans see: N. de Poorter, Eucharist I, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Brussels 1978, 23-28. H. Vlieghe, Rubens Portraits of Identified Sitters Painted in Antwerp, 1987, cat. no. 109-112. On Van Dyck's portrait: S.J. Barnes et al, Van Dyck. A Complete Catalogue of Paintings, New Haven and London 2004, cat. no. III. 90. Published by Hymans 1882, 365. J. Franquart and E. Puteanus, Pompa Funebris Optimi Potentissimiq. Principis Alberti PU, Archiducis Austria, Ducis Burg. Bra. & c, Brussels 1623. Engravings published by Elymans 1882, 449-80. See also P. Fuhring, Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum II. Seventeenth centmy, part 3, Amsterdam and Rotterdam 2004, 21-23, no. 9694-9769, with earlier literature. A great part of the text was also published in Phoenix Principum by E. Puteanus (Leuven 1622). Mallery had a close relationship with the Galle family of engravers and publishers family. Philip Galle (1537-1612) was his teacher, and alter marrying Galle's daughter, Catharina Galle in 1598, he became a relative of his colleague. Published by Hymans 1882, 364. See Franquart and Puteanus 1623, Puteanus quoted in: Anonyme, L'Histoire de VArchiduc Albert. L'Histoire de l'Archiduc Alben Gouverneur General et Puis Prince souverain de la Belgique. A Cologne Chez les héritiers de Corneille Edmond, M. DC. XCIII; Hymans 1882, 364. Unknown 17 lh-century painter, Archduke Albeit on a Catafalque in the Palace Chapel, oil on canvas, 69 x 98 cm. Exhibited: Flandres-Espagne-Portugal du XVau XVIT Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux Arts 1954, no. 90. as Philip II on a Catafalque in the Escorial in 1598; Bruxelles au temps des archiducs Albert et Isahelle, Brussels, Musée Royaux des Beaux Arts 1959. A detail of the picture reproduced in colour
