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Catalogue raisonné: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 121: 
 

Technical notes: The support consists of a single
piece of densely and evenly woven plain-weave fabric.
The tacking edges, which have been grounded and
painted along all four sides have been preserved. The fact
that the motif extends well beyond the tacking edges
implies that the canvas has been trimmed. The canvas
has been lined. A reddish-brown ground has been
applied thickly and evenly to cover the texture of the
canvas. The paint layer is thin and semi-opaque in application.
There is light grey underpainting below the flesh
tones. The face and body of the subject have been
reserved and painted in separately. There are a few
retouches to the face, hair and the lower section of the
gown. The varnish layer has oxidised and acquired a yellowish
tone.

Provenance: Transferred in 1866 from Gripsholm

Bibliography: Cat. Gripsholm I, Stockholm 1951, p. 13.

In earlier times there was a great demand for copies of
portraits depicting important rulers and their consorts
from all over Europe and this applied at Gripsholm as
well. This portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand
III in a painted black oval and decorated with
the Order of the Golden Fleece is an eloquent example.
The subject, Ferdinand III, is depicted in a painted
oval and against a background of partly hanging
draperies. Ferdinand III is wearing a black costume
with a flat white collar and the Order of the Golden
Fleece. This is a simply executed copy of an original
work in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv.
no. 66 8024).
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