Archduchess Maria with Her Elder Daughter Maria Eleonore

portrait

As the court painter of Ferdinand I, Jacob Seisenegger dominated the evolution of the representative portrait in Austria over the course of many decades, from 1530 to 1560. The portraits of Ferdinand I and his numerous children either originated from Seisenegger himself or refer to the portrait types and formats that he coined. Seisenegger followed Italian, and above all Venetian, models.

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Archduchess Maria with Her Elder Daughter Maria Eleonore

About the Artist

Jacob Seisenegger

1504 – 1567

Austrian painter, chiefly a portraitist. In 1531 he became court painter to the emperor Ferdinand I at Augsburg and he worked much for the Habsburg family. He was a painter of modest talent, but has some importance in the development of the full-length portrait; his famous work is the full-length portrait of Charles V (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), which served as a model for the more famous one by Titian (Prado, Madrid). Seisenegger travelled widely, working in Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain, as well as in various cities in Central Europe: Innsbruck, Prague, Vienna.

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