King Philip IV of Spain

Artist Cornelis de Vos Flemish, 1584/1585–1651

ArtistRetouched (?) by Peter Paul Rubens Flemish, b. 1577, Siegen Westphalia; d. 1640, Antwerp

Date1635

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions96 3/4 x 52 5/16 in. (245.7 x 132.9 cm)
Frame: 106 3/4 x 62 1/2 in. (271.1 x 158.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number52.9.110

On View

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ProvenanceCommissioned by the city of Antwerp, 1634; created Antwerp, Flanders [present day Belgium], 1635; presented to Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain (1609–1641), Brussels. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650– 1722), Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, probably in 1706, definitely by 1718; by descent to John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill (1897–1972), 10th Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace; [Koetser Gallery, London and New York, 1952]; sold to NCMA, 1952.Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 132, illus. (b-w) as 131 (photo numbers transposed in error).

John Rupert Martin, The Decorations for the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi (London and New York: Phaidon, 1972), 82-86, illus, fig. 31.

“A Fine Private Collection of Pictures, Watercolours, Prints, Furniture, Clocks, European and Asiatic Porcelain, Sculpture and Works of Art,” (auction catalogue) (Amsterdam: Christie's, September 12, 1985), lot 78.

Michael Jaffé, Catologo Completo Rubens (Milan: Rizzoli, 1989), no. 1129, illus.

Katlijne van der Stighelen, De portretten van Cornelis de Vos (1584/5-1651): een kritische catalogus (Brussel: AWLSK, 1990), 207.

"Renovated European Galleries," in North Carolina Museum of Art supplement to the Herald-Sun (Durham, NC), October 2002, mentioned 3.

Stephanie-Suzanne Durante et al., Peter Paul Rubens - a touch of brilliance: oil sketches and related works from the State Hermitage Museum and Courtauld Institute Gallery (München: Prestel, 2003), 105.

Karen C. Kelly, "Kings, Comedians, and Captains of Industry: Trails of Art Ownership," in Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (Spring 2008), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 11.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 77, illus. (color) 365.

Frank Fehrenbach, “The Unmoved Mover,” in Art, Music, Spectacle in the Age of Rubens, Anna C. Knaap and Michael C. J. Putnam, eds. (London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2013), briefly discussed 133–134, illus. (b-w) 134, fig. 13.

Alexis Merle du Bourg, Jordaens: 1593–1678 (Paris: Musées, 2013), noted 196.

Rubens, Portraits princiers (exhibition catalogue) (Paris: Musée du Luxembourg, 2017), discussed 128-29, illus. (color) 128.
Exhibition HistoryParis, France, Musée du Luxembourg, “Rubens, Portraits princiers,” October 4, 2017–January 14, 2018, cat. no. 21, illus. (color).

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