Jan van Kessel II versus Jacques Courtilleau: Two ways to portray Queen Maria Anna of Neuburg

Abstract

During the last decade of the seventeenth century, the Spanish Court portrait, moved between naturalism and idealization. It orbited between the tradition that dragged from the middle of the century in the royal representation and the new airs coming from France. Two painters represent like nobody else these two tendencies within the portrait of Queen Maria Anna of Neuburg, the flemish Jan van Kessel II and the french Jacques Courtilleau. With this paper we want to delve into their pictorial styles and add some works to their almost unknown catalogs.

Keywords

• mariana de neoburgo
• jan van kessel ii
• jacques courtilleau
• retrato palatino
• naturalismo
• idealización.