Artist
Jakob de Monte
d. 1593
Jakob de Monte was an Early Baroque Italian artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Kunsthistorisches Museum.
- Erzherzogin Elisabeth (1554-1592), Königin von Frankreich, in Witwentracht, Brustbild
- Archduchess Katharina Renea (1576-1595) in black dress
- Kaiser Ferdinand II (1578-1637) at the age of 14
- Erzherzogin Gregoria Maximiliane (1581-1597), Tochter von Karl II. von Innerösterreich, im Alter von 11 bis 12 Jahren in ganzer Figur
Austrian portrait painter active in the late 1500s, Jakob de Monte specialized in formal court likenesses. His brush captured Archduchess Katharina Renea in black dress (1591) and Kaiser Ferdinand II at age 14 (1592), both stiff-collared heirlooms from the Habsburg era. These paintings sit in the same quiet archive where time slowed around the late Renaissance. Tap any sitter’s starched ruff to step into their world.
Works by Jakob de Monte
- Erzherzogin Elisabeth (1554-1592), Königin von Frankreich, in Witwentracht, Brustbild
- Archduchess Katharina Renea (1576-1595) in black dress
- Kaiser Ferdinand II (1578-1637) at the age of 14
- Erzherzogin Gregoria Maximiliane (1581-1597), Tochter von Karl II. von Innerösterreich, im Alter von 11 bis 12 Jahren in ganzer Figur
Collections represented
Museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term…