Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
A churchman in the commander's format
The title names a Cardinal-Infante, an office in the church held by a prince, and puts him in the equestrian format that this catalogue otherwise fills with kings and generals. The interesting thing about the entry is visible in the filing rather than in any anecdote: the work sits under male portraiture and Animal Art > Horse, alongside Cultural Heritage > Mythology and a fantasy heading. Mounted portraiture and allegory were routinely combined, the horse carrying the sitter while personifications carried the argument.
What the record holds
The date of creation is 1634 and the location is the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The dimensions are 335 x 258 cm. Baroque is the recorded style, Flemish the recorded nationality, and the measured colour family of the image is brown, the commonest here at 213 of 636 records.
How to read the mythology tag
The mythological heading appears on 90 records in this catalogue. On a portrait it generally signals allegorical company rather than a mythological subject. The record does not itemise what that company consists of, so neither does this entry.
Sources
6 references- Rubens, Peter Paul — Getty ULAN
Flemish painter, 1577-1640
- Peter Paul Rubens — Wikipedia
Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ROO-bənz; Dutch: [ˈpeːtər pʌul ˈrybəns]; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositi
- The Cardinal-Infante Don Fernando de Austria, at the Battle of Nördlingen — Wikidata
description: painting by Pieter Paul Rubens; inception: 1634; dimensions: 337.5 × 261 cm; collection: Museo del Prado
- museodelprado.es — record for "The Cardinal-Infante Don Fernando de Austria, at the Battle of Nördlingen"
Primary source record for this work (museodelprado.es).
- Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria — Wikipedia
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (also known as Don Fernando de Austria, Cardenal-Infante Fernando de España and as Ferdinand von Österreich; 16 May 1609 – 9 November 1641) was a Spanish and Portuguese prince (Infante of Spain, Infante of Portuga
- Bildnis des Don Fernando, Kardinal-Infant von Spanienn - Peter Paul Rubens — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
