Jean de Carondelet

Artist Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse (Flemish, ca. 1478-1536)

Place of OriginFlanders

Dateabout 1508

DimensionsFrame: 56.2 × 45.4 × 4.4 cm (22 1/8 × 17 7/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Painting: 15 9/16 × 11 7/8 in. (39.5 × 30.2 cm)
With frame: 22 1/8 × 18 in. (56.2 × 45.7 cm)

MediumOil on wood panel

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of William E. Levis

Object number

1935.58

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 16

Label TextAn important clerical official in the Catholic Church in Flanders, Jean de Carondelet (1469-1545) held the post of Canon of St. Donatian Cathedral at Bruges at the time this portrait was painted. 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. Jan Gossart 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 Gossart’s patrons over many years, and Gossart painted at least two other portraits of him (Toledo’s is the earliest). For a later work by Gossart, see his Wings from the So-Called Salamanca Triptych in Gallery 16.Published ReferencesWeale, W.H.J., "Portraits of Archbishop John Carondelet," Burlington Magazine, XVI, Mar. 1910, p. 342, pl. 1.

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Exhibition HistoryLondon, Royal Academy, Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Flemish and Belgian Art, A Memorial Volume, 1927, no. 200, pl. LXXX.

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