Women Patrons and Collectors Women Patrons and Collectors Edited by Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy, and Adriana Turpin Women Patrons and Collectors, Edited by Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy, and Adriana Turpin This book first published 2012 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2012 by Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy, and Adriana Turpin and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-3464-5, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-3464-3 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations .................................................................................... vii Acknowledgements .................................................................................... xi List of Abbreviations................................................................................ xiii Foreword ................................................................................................... xv Introduction .............................................................................................. xix Sheila ffolliott Chapter Abstracts .................................................................................. xxxv Chapter One................................................................................................. 1 Golden Chambers for Eleonora of Toledo: Duchess and Collector in Palazzo Vecchio Andrea M. Gáldy and Robert G. La France Chapter Two.............................................................................................. 35 Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Dysart and Duchess of Lauderdale (1626-1698) as a Collector and Patron Christopher Rowell Chapter Three............................................................................................ 67 Agnes Block, a Collector of Plants and Curiosities in the Dutch Golden Age, and her Friendship with Maria Sibylla Merian, Natural History Illustrator Joy Kearney Chapter Four.............................................................................................. 83 The Treasures of Countess Erzsébet Rákóczi (1654-1707) Orsolya Bubryák vi Table of Contents Chapter Five ............................................................................................ 101 The Musaeum of the 1st Duchess of Northumberland (1716-1776) at Northumberland House in London: An Introduction Adriano Aymonino Chapter Six.............................................................................................. 121 The Princely Mother as Collector: Between Maternal Love and Dynastic Representation Heike Zech Chapter Seven.......................................................................................... 139 The Duchesse de Berri and the Aesthetics of Royalism: Dynastic Collecting in Nineteenth-Century France Philip Mansel Bibliography............................................................................................ 153 Authors’ Biographies............................................................................... 183 Index........................................................................................................ 187 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1: Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, plan of second floor (source: Robert La France based on eighteenth-century Prague plans); Figure 2: Palazzo Vecchio, south façade onto Via della Ninna (source: Robert La France); Figure 3: Palazzo Vecchio, plan of third floor (source: Robert La France based on Prague plans); Figure 4: Palazzo Vecchio, Dogana courtyard with north-facing façade of second and third floors (source: Robert La France); Figure 5: Castel Nuovo, Naples with Golden Tower (source: John Hoenig); Figure 6: Sir Peter Lely, The Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale, oil on canvas, c.1675 (source: National Trust, ©NTPL/John Hammond); Figure 7: Carved, bronzed and gilded silver-mounted ebony-topped side table, with caryatid legs, c.1670 (the ebony stretcher added c.1730) in the Green Closet (source: National Trust, ©NTPL/John Hammond); Figure 8: The Duchess’s Private Closet (source: National Trust, ©NTPL/John Hammond); Figure 9: The Penitent Magdalen, surrounded by Putti holding Emblems of Time, Death and Eternity, c.1675 (the ceiling of the Duchess’s Private Closet) by Antonio Verrio (c.1639-1707) (source: National Trust, ©NTPL/John Hammond); Figure 10: “Scriptore of Prince wood, garnished with Silver”, c.1675, attributed to Gerrit Jensen (d.1715), oak veneered with rosewood (dalbergia nigra, from South America) (source: National Trust, ©NTPL/John Hammond); Figure 11: Jan Weenix, portrait of Agnes Block and Sybrand de Flines and their children, c.1694 (source: Amsterdam Museum); Figure 12: Georg Gsell, Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, hand-coloured counterproof, 1717 (source: Artis Library, University of Amsterdam, Special Collections Department); Figure 13: Maria Sybilla Merian, Pineapple and Cockroaches, hand-coloured etching, 1705 (source: Artis Library, University of Amsterdam, Special Collections Department); Figure 14: Maria Sybilla Merian, Guava Tree with Tarantulas and Leaf-cutter Ants, hand-coloured etching, 1719 (source: Artis Library, University of Amsterdam, Special Collections Department); Figure 15: Maria Sybilla Merian, Cardinal’s Guard, Idomeneus Giant Owl, plate 60 from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705), watercolour on vellum, 1701-1705 (source: Artis Library, University of Amsterdam, Special Collections Department); Figure 16: Portrait of Erzsébet Rákóczi; nineteenth-century copy after a lost viii List of Illustrations seventeenth-century painting, oil on canvas (source: private collection); Figure 17: Frans Luyckx(?), portrait of Ádám Erdődy, 1668 (inscribed with the incorrect date 1680), oil on canvas (source: private collection); Figure 18: Jobst Heberlein, half of a double standing cup, Nuremberg, last quarter of the sixteenth century, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (source: András Dabasi); Figure 19: Matthäus Seutter, silver-gilt jug, ornamented with medals commemorating the Battle of Mohács (1526), Augsburg, early seventeenth century, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (source: András Dabasi); Fig. 20: Johannes Lencker, silver-gilt cup decorated with a nymph, Augsburg, first quarter of seventeenth century, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (source: Photographic Archive of the MNM); Figure 21: Allan Ramsay, Lady Elizabeth Seymour Percy, later 2nd Countess and later 1st Duchess of Northumberland, oil on canvas, 72.4 x 52.7 cm, 1739, Collection of the Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle; Figure 22: Plan of the middle floor of Northumberland House “about the time of Algernon duke of Somerset” [c.1749] (source: Alnwick Archive, SY B/XV/2/K: 1); Figure 23: David Ryckaert the younger, An Interior with an Alchemist, a Woman and a Child (Vanitas), oil on canvas, 67.9 x 94 cm, signed, l.l., D. Rÿckaert and dated 1644 [?] (source: Collection of the Duke of Northumberland, Syon House); Figure 24: Isaac Gosset, Series of wax portraits of British worthies and aristocrats: William, 18th Earl of Sutherland, 15 x 17 cm; John, Marquis of Granby, 12 x 15 cm, c.1770; Mary Maxwell, later 18th Countess of Sutherland, 15 x 17 cm, c. 1760; Hugh, 1st Duke of Northumberland, 15 x 18 cm; Elizabeth, 1st Countess Brooke and of Warwick, 12 x 15 cm, c.1750; George II, 15 x 18 cm, c. 1760; Lady Mary Coke, 15 x 18 cm, c. 1750; Princess Charlotte, 15 x 18 cm, c. 1760; Inigo Jones, 11.5 x 13.2 cm (source: Collection of the Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle); Figure 25: Jean Louis Fesch, Lady Carry, Lord Carry, Lord Russborough, watercolour on vellum, 10 x 8 cm, c. 1770 (source: Collection of the Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle); Figure 26: Frontispiece of Johann Gottlieb Corvinus’s (Amaranthes) Frauenzimmer-Lexicon, Wolfenbüttel, 1715 (source: Wolfenbüttel Library); Figure 27: Johann Jakob Kleinschmidt after Cosmas Damian Asam, Electress Therese Kunigunde of Bavaria in Exile Surrounded by Portraits of her Children and Husband, 1715 (source: Munich, Stadtmuseum); Figure 28: Johan Andreas Wolff, Electress Therese Kunigunde with a Miniature Depicting her Son Karl Albrecht, oil on canvas, dated 1704 (source: Munich, Staatliche Verwaltung der Bayerischen Schlösser und Seen, Schloss Nymphenburg); Figure 29: Nymphenburg porcelain cup with a portrait of the future king Maximilian II of Bavaria as a baby, circa 1813-1814, unmarked (source: Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, inv. No. Ker 2207/2372); Women Patrons and Collectors ix Figure 30: Print by M. Delpech from a portrait by Robert Lefevre, Portrait of the Duchesse de Berri, c.1825 (source: Philip Mansel collection); Figure 31: James Pradier. The Duchesse de Berri with her two Children, Mademoiselle and the Duc de Bordeaux, c.1825 (source: Philip Mansel collection); Figure 32: Madame Auzou. A Paris Window the Day of the Return of Louis XVIII, 1814 (source: Philip Mansel collection). ABBREVIATIONS Alnwick Archive Archives of the Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle ASF Archivio dello Stato di Firenze British Library, Add. MSS British Library Additional Manuscripts BPA Buckminster Park Archives DG Depositaria Generale, Parte Antica FM Fabbriche Medicee GM Guardaroba Medicea HMC Historic Manuscripts Commission MNM Budapest,