Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Spain, plate 13 from Duces Burgundiae (Dukes of Burgundy)
1644
Medium
Engraving and etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 40.5 × 28.1 cm (16 × 11 1/8 in.); Sheet: 47.6 × 34.7 cm (18 3/4 × 13 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
145820
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Active in Flanders and the Netherlands, Pieter Soutman was an accomplished painter, draftsman, and printmaker who also acted as a print publisher. The works in this portrait series of the dukes of Burgundy and their wives are distinguished by their elaborate borders, which Soutman designed and engraved himself. The portraits in the center of the compositions are adapted from compositions originated by the favored artists of the Burgundian courts—Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Titian, and, ...