Equestrian Portrait of Francisco da Moncada

Equestrian Portrait of Francisco da Moncada is a 1634 oil on canvas painting by Antony van Dyck, one of his most famous portraits,[1] now INV 1240 in Room 850 (d) of the Louvre Museum, which acquired it from the Palazzo Braschi in Rome in 1798.[2][3]

It shows Francisco de Moncada, who for one year was governor of the Spanish Netherlands.[4] It was one of a pair of portraits of da Moncada simultaneously commissioned in 1634, just after his return to his native Flanders after a stay in London - the other is in the seated Portrait of Francisco da Moncada (Kunsthistorisches Museum).[5] He probably copied the pose from a drawing of a horse-rider seen face on by his former master Peter Paul Rubens,[6] whilst Charles Coypel in turn produced a copy of the work.[7][8]

References
  1. (in French) Histoire de l'humanité : 1492-1789 (trad. de l'anglais), vol. 5, Paris, UNESCO, coll. « Histoire Plurielle », 2008, 1247 p. (ISBN 978-92-3-202814-3 et 92-3-202814-X, lire en ligne [archive]), p. 445.
  2. (in French) "Louvre Collections entry".
  3. (in French) "Base Joconde entry".
  4. (in French) "Louvre Collections entry".
  5. (in Italian) Christopher Brown, Van Dyck 1599-1641, Milan, RCS Libri, 1999 (ISBN 88-17-86060-3)
  6. (in French) Viardot, Louis (1860). "Louis Viardot, Les Musées de France. Paris. Guide et memento de l'artiste et du voyageur, faisant suite aux Musées d'Italie, etc., L. Hachette et cie, 1860, 2e éd., 520 p. 2929".
  7. (in French) Thierry Lefrançois, Charles Coypel : peintre du roi (1694-1752), Paris, Arthéna, 1994, 521 p. (ISBN 2-903239-18-5 et 9782903239183), p. 181.
  8. "RKD Images entry".
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