Gonzales Coques (with many other artists)

Interior with Figures in a Picture Gallery

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238 voorzijde

Gonzales Coques (with many other artists)
Interior with Figures in a Picture Gallery

1667-1672 and 1706 On view in Gallery Prince Willem V

Pictures showing rooms full of paintings and other works of art are known as gallery paintings (kunstkamers). It was a genre that flourished in seventeenth-century Antwerp. This particular gallery painting is unusual since as many as twenty artists worked on it. Each artist contributed one or more of the miniature paintings, co-ordinated by Gonzales Coques, who also painted the figures in the foreground. For a contemporary viewer of a group work like this, it would have been great fun to see who could recognise the most masters.

Stadholder William IV purchased this work at an auction in 1741 and it was installed in Het Loo Palace. His son William V later brought the painting to The Hague, where it hung in his Gallery.

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Gonzales Coques (with many other artists)
Interior with Figures in a Picture Gallery

1667-1672 and 1706 On view in Gallery Prince Willem V

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General information
Artist Gonzales Coques (Antwerp 1614 - 1684 Antwerp) (with many other artists)
Title Interior with Figures in a Picture Gallery
Dated 1667-1672 and 1706
Object name painting
Inventory number 238
On view in Gallery Prince Willem V
Material and technical details
Technique oil
Material canvas
Dimensions 176 x 210.5 cm
Inscriptions
Dated on the fire back of the mantlepiece: 1672

Provenance

Jacob de Wit, Antwerp, 1741; Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn, 1757; Prince William V, The Hague, 1763-1795; confiscated by the French, transferred to the Muséum Central des Arts/Musée Napoléon (Musée du Louvre), Paris, 1795-1815; Royal Picture Gallery, housed in the Prince William V Gallery, The Hague, 1816; transferred to the Mauritshuis, 1822