Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)
JÚLIA TÁTRAI AND LÁSZLO LENGYEL: Archduke Albert († 1621) on the Catafalque: A Picture of Old-New Acquisition
in: Het Paleis van Brüssel. Acht eeuwen kunst en geschiedenis, exh. cat. by A. Smolar-Meynart e.a., Gemeentekrediet and Koninklijke Alaatschappij voor Oudheidkunde Brüssel 1991, 108. Albert & Isabelle 1998, 275-76, no. 379. Unknown (Flemish?) painter, around 1621, oil, on canvas, 72 x 83 cm, Madrid, Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, Patrimonio Nacional, inv. no 00613952. Albert & Isabelle 1998, 275-76, no. 379. It is possible that the depicted figure was identified as Philip III. because he passed away on March 31, 1621, shortly before Albert. Albert & Isabelle 1998, 275-76, no. 379. It is interesting that Ana Garcia Sanz, author of the catalogue entry, claims that the Madrid picture is a copy of the Brussels painting. Based on the picture's depictions it could be a copy of a detail; however, the two works have nothing in common with each other neither stylistically, nor in their composition. For more details on this theme see: Enikő D. Buzási, " 17 th-Century Catafalque Paintings in Hungary", Acta Históriáé Artiiwi XXI, nos. 1-2 (1975). Gizella Cennerné Wilhelmb, "Halotti képmások, ravatalképek a Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Magyar Történeti Képcsarnokában" [Mourning portraits and catafalque pictures in the Hungarian Historical Gallery of the Hungarian National Museum], Művészet (1977), 12. The first quarter of the coat-of-arms of Archduke Albert contains the heraldic symbol of these two countries, as can be seen in Flendrik van Balen's painting depicting the coat-of-arms of the archduke, made between 1604 and 1618 (oil on canvas, 143 x 137 cm), Ghent, Saint-Sauveur Church. See Albeit & Isabelle 1998, 61, no. 61. L. Lessius, "On Buying and Selling (1605); translation and introduction by W. Decock", Journal of Markets & Morality 10, no. 2 (Fall 2007), 433-516. "King Albert the Pius always kept Lessius's book on justice on the table before him as his most trusted counsellor when he held hearings, to show that his decisions were buttressed 'by the arms of Austria and the wisdom of Lessius'." In A. Hamy, Gallerie illustrée de la Compagnie de Jesus, Paris 1893-1896; see alsoj. de Ghellinck, "Leonard Lessius", in The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. IX, New York 1910. www.newadvent.org/cathen/09192a.htm. Portraits of Lessius: Unknown painter: Ponrait of Lessius, 17th century, Chambéry, Musée des BeauxArts; Unknown painter: Half-length Portrait of Lessius, 17th century, Archief der Vlaamse Jezuiten; Unknown painter: Half-length Portrait of Lessius, 17th century, Turnhout, Taxandriamuseum; Unknown painter: Lessius before a Crucifix, 1613, Unknown painter: Lessius as a Theologian, 1613, Leuven, Klooster van de Jezuiten; an engraving of Lessius by Nicolas de Larmessin, reproduced by Hamy 1893-1896, n. p. R. H. Wilenski, Flemish Painters 1430-1830, London 1960, vol. I, 239.
