PORTRAIT OF JOHANN PHILIPP SCHÖNBORN, ELECTOR OF MAINZ (1605-1673)
Artist Johann Heinrich Roos
Otterberg, 1631 – Frankfurt am Main, 1685
Date ca. 1663
Object type painting Medium, technique oil on canvas Dimensions 117 × 90 cm Inventory number 426
Collection Old Master Paintings
On view Museum of Fine Arts, First Floor, European Art 1600–1700 and British Painting 1600–1800, Cabinet 2
Roos, a Protestant, was expecting more than a commission for a portrait when he turned to Johann Philipp von Schönborn (1605–1673), archbishop and elector of Mainz. The writing held in the elector’s right hand is presumably Roos’s application for a position as court painter, which the Catholic prelate rejected. In an unmistakable sign of his benevolence, however, he commissioned this portrait, for which he rewarded the artist not only with the requisite honorarium, but also with a gold chain. The painter captured the ageing man without idealisation, simultaneously conveying his dignity.
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