Jean de Carondelet
Artist: Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse (Flemish, ca. 1478-1536)
Date: about 1508
Dimensions:
H: 15 9/16 in. (39.6 cm); W: 11 7/8 in. (30.3 cm)
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of William E. Levis
Object number: 1935.58
Label Text:An important clerical official in the Catholic Church in Flanders, at the time this portrait was painted Jean de Carondelet (1469-1545) held the post of Canon of St. Donatian Cathedral at Bruges. He would later be appointed to other high offices, including Archbishop of Palermo. This portrait may have been painted on the occasion of Carondelet being elected to the government advisory council of Malines (Mechelen), Flanders, in 1508. Gossaert carefully describes the rich textures of fur, damask, and velvet of Carondelet’s costume, presenting him as wealthy and powerful, but not ostentatious. Carondelet remained one of Jan Gossaert’s patrons over many years, and Gossaert painted at least two other portraits of him (Toledo’s is the earliest). For a later work by Gossaert, see his Wings of the Salamanca Triptych.
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