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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableFrans Pourbus the Younger comes from a distinguished Antwerp family of painters. In the workshop of his father of the same name he learned the tools of the trade to bring people expressively onto canvas. As a painter at the Brussels court, he managed to gain an international reputation before he became court painter to the Duke of Mantua in 1600 and was appointed to the French royal court nine years later. Frans Pourbus was now at the zenith of his career.
The Flemish artist painted the rich and beautiful of his time. The list of those he portrayed reads like a who's who of the most powerful European ruling houses. His clientele included the young French king Louis XIII and his sister Elizabeth, later Queen of Spain. Above all, however, their mother, the French queen and temporary regent Maria de Medici, one of the most beautiful and glamorous women in Europe, had herself portrayed by him several times. Frans Pourbus staged the splendid fabrics worn by these ladies like hardly anyone else. Damask, silk, lace and brocade, painted by him, are what one would most like to touch. The pearl earrings and necklaces of the fine ladies glitter as if they were real. In his time, in the late 16th and early 17th century, the fine ladies and gentlemen liked the magnificently starched ruffles made of lace, which Pourbus painted in such detail, so you could feel the bobbin lace art. The master can thus be regarded as an early representative of trompe-l'oeil painting, the aim of which was to deceive the eye of the beholder and to make him believe that he was standing in front of the real person in his magnificent garment.
However, his artistic interest was not only in clothing and splendour, but above all in the personality of the portrayed persons. He created timelessly valid portraits and certainly flattered his clients from time to time by painting them more beautiful than they actually were. He liked them and they are still extremely popular today! He also portrayed intelligence and power appropriately. In precise, almost psychologizing head studies he painted, for example, three French judges, but he also portrayed the influential diplomat Vigilius von Aytta in a dignified manner.
However, the most famous portrait artist of his time also dealt with religious themes, which he staged opulently in the spirit of the early baroque. Thus there is a sermon by John the Baptist, which seems almost stage-like, and a Last Supper with Christ and his disciples, which is almost permeated with supernatural purity. Frans Pourbus was undoubtedly a painter prince of his time, who died in Paris in 1622 at the age of 50. His friend, the young Peter Paul Rubens was also influenced by the magnificent materiality of his garments and the soulfulness of his depictions of human beings in the most beautiful way.
Frans Pourbus the Younger comes from a distinguished Antwerp family of painters. In the workshop of his father of the same name he learned the tools of the trade to bring people expressively onto canvas. As a painter at the Brussels court, he managed to gain an international reputation before he became court painter to the Duke of Mantua in 1600 and was appointed to the French royal court nine years later. Frans Pourbus was now at the zenith of his career.
The Flemish artist painted the rich and beautiful of his time. The list of those he portrayed reads like a who's who of the most powerful European ruling houses. His clientele included the young French king Louis XIII and his sister Elizabeth, later Queen of Spain. Above all, however, their mother, the French queen and temporary regent Maria de Medici, one of the most beautiful and glamorous women in Europe, had herself portrayed by him several times. Frans Pourbus staged the splendid fabrics worn by these ladies like hardly anyone else. Damask, silk, lace and brocade, painted by him, are what one would most like to touch. The pearl earrings and necklaces of the fine ladies glitter as if they were real. In his time, in the late 16th and early 17th century, the fine ladies and gentlemen liked the magnificently starched ruffles made of lace, which Pourbus painted in such detail, so you could feel the bobbin lace art. The master can thus be regarded as an early representative of trompe-l'oeil painting, the aim of which was to deceive the eye of the beholder and to make him believe that he was standing in front of the real person in his magnificent garment.
However, his artistic interest was not only in clothing and splendour, but above all in the personality of the portrayed persons. He created timelessly valid portraits and certainly flattered his clients from time to time by painting them more beautiful than they actually were. He liked them and they are still extremely popular today! He also portrayed intelligence and power appropriately. In precise, almost psychologizing head studies he painted, for example, three French judges, but he also portrayed the influential diplomat Vigilius von Aytta in a dignified manner.
However, the most famous portrait artist of his time also dealt with religious themes, which he staged opulently in the spirit of the early baroque. Thus there is a sermon by John the Baptist, which seems almost stage-like, and a Last Supper with Christ and his disciples, which is almost permeated with supernatural purity. Frans Pourbus was undoubtedly a painter prince of his time, who died in Paris in 1622 at the age of 50. His friend, the young Peter Paul Rubens was also influenced by the magnificent materiality of his garments and the soulfulness of his depictions of human beings in the most beautiful way.
.jpg "Henry IV, King of France, in armour, c.1610 by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Vicenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1600 by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "The Last Supper by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, Archduchess of Austria by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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 as a Child - (MeisterDrucke-81546).jpg "Portrait of Eleonora de Gonzaga Mantua as a Child by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Elisabeth of France, Queen Consort of Spain (1602-1644) by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Margaret of Savoy 1589-1655, Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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 Queen of Spain 1615-22 - (MeisterDrucke-50596).jpg "Isabella of Bourbon (1602-44) Queen of Spain, 1615-22 by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Duke of Chevreuse by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Maria de’ Medici by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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 Queen of France 1617 - (MeisterDrucke-70528).jpg "Marie de Medici, Queen of France by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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 roi de France en armure - (MeisterDrucke-542570).jpg "Henry IV (1553-1610), King of France, in Armor by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Margherita Gonzaga, Princess of Mantua by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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_King_of_France_in_a_black_costume_c1610_(panel)_-_(MeisterDrucke-82216).jpg "Portrait of Henri IV King of France, in a black costume by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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 Queen of France 1617 - (MeisterDrucke-114747).jpg "Marie de Medici, Queen of France by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "King Henry IV of France by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Constance of Austria, Queen of Poland, ca 1603 by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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 Infanta of Spain Queen of France and Navarre - (MeisterDrucke-93341).jpg "Portrait of Anne of Austria, Infanta of Spain, Queen of France and Navarre by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Philip William, Prince of Orange by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Vigilius von Aytta, c.1566-67 by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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 Prince of Orange - (MeisterDrucke-107156).jpg "Philip William, Prince of Orange by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "The Last Supper by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, ca 1604 by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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_Grand_Duke_of_Tuscany_and_his_Niece_Marie_(1_-_(MeisterDrucke-44339).jpg "Portrait of Ferdinand I Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his Niece Marie, future wife of Henri IV by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marie de Huelstre, wife of Willem van Vyve by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Vincenzo I by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Marie de Médicis by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Sermon of St. John the Baptist by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "King Henry IV of France by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "King Henry IV of France by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "The Five Senses: Smell by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Queen Elisabeth of France, Queen Consort of Spain by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-662310).jpg "Portrait of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (1559-1621) by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Lady by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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_in_Coronation_Robes_c1610_-_(MeisterDrucke-36092).jpg "Marie de Medici in Coronation Robes, c.1610 by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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_a_follower_of_the_Ghent_Calvinists_1567_-_(MeisterDrucke-88058).jpg "Jan van Hembyze (1513-84), a follower of the Ghent Calvinists, 1567 by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "The Five Senses: Taste by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-115769).jpg "Marie de Medici (1573-1642) by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marie de Médici, 1575-1642, 1613 by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "The Five Senses: Touch by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Marie de Médicis by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Marie de Médicis by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-50038).jpg "Guillaume du Vair by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "The Five Senses: Hearing by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-42871).jpg "Portrait of Guillaume de Vair by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marie de Médici by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Annunciation by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Italian Poet, Giambattista Marino by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Lady, Possibly Elizabeth of France by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Marie de Médicis by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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_roi_de_France_en_costume_noir_Henry_IV_-_(MeisterDrucke-1571172).jpg "Portrait of Henry IV, King of France in Black Dress by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
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.jpg "Portrait of Martin Ruzé de Beaulieu by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
_King_of_France_-_(MeisterDrucke-68977).jpg "Portrait of Henri IV (1553-1610) King of France by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
.jpg "Portrait of Queen Elisabeth of France, Queen consort of Spain by Frans Pourbus the Younger")
 1615 - (MeisterDrucke-84448).jpg "Portrait of Elisabeth of France (1602-44) by Frans Pourbus the Younger")