I've always loved works such as Archduke Leopold William in his Gallery, 1650-52, by David Teniers the Younger, which show a roomful of artworks. This Google Art Project version of the painting enables us to get very close up and to appreciate the artist's fidelity to the various works of the collection.
It turns out that David Teniers was actually employed by the Archduke both as an artist and as a curator. So we have a series of works depicting the Archduke's collection in various stages and aspects, along with human and canine activities within it. I've found six so far:
* The Gallery, 1639 (Schleissheim)* The Gallery, 1640 (Schleissheim)
* The Gallery, 1641 (Schleissheim)
* The Archduke in His Gallery, c. 1647 (Prado)
* The Archduke in His Gallery, 1651 (Brussels)
* The Art Collection, c. 1651 (Vienna) (the same painting as the one at Google Art Project, above)
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