MASTERPIECE
Pieter Claeissens II’s composition bears great similarity to a print by the Wierix Brothers and Willem van Haecht. It is likely that Claeissens and Wierix and Haecht were influenced by a composition by Crispijn van den Broeck or Frans Floris, which unfortunately is now lost. Claeissens altered his image in order to communicate that this was a painting from Bruges. Thirteen men walk behind the triumphal chariot. These are all portraits. The man in red can be identified as Joris van Brakele, based on other portraits of him that have been preserved. He was mayor from 2 September 1576 to 2 September 1577 and, in that capacity, he signed the Union of Brussels on 9 Januari 1577. He probably also commissioned this painting for that occasion. The work can thus be accurately dated and must have been produced between 9 January and 2 September 1577.
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signatuur (rechts onderaan): Petrus Claeis Fecit
zinspreuk (links onderaan): (eerste kolom) den goddelijcken paijs voor seventthien landen / was traghe in haer compste door dese twee vijanden / dats den ouden haet en die verblinde eijghen baet / maer nu breect den stock in dwiel tot haerder schanden / want liefde mee[c]t sterck voirts trauwe houdt vast tractaet; (tweede kolom) verboden met des lants staten door wijsen raet / en den tijdt mact de gemeente met reden stoudt / om om discoort te verdepen in spijt van tfortsich Saedt / wijs is den coninck die sijn lant in vreden houdt
zinspreuk (onderaan in het midden): (derde kolom) ARVA TRIVMPHALI RESIDE[N]S PER BELGICA CV[R]RV[M] / SIT DETENTA LICET RABIE LIVORI[S] ACERBI / VECTAQVE TARDIGRADIS, TA[N]DEM PAX VENIT A ELLIS / FVNE LIGANS PROCERES CONCORDI BELGIA HON[O]RE / LAETA TRIV[M]PHANTE[M] DIGNATVR CLAVDITVR ANVRO; (vierde kolom) A POPVLO RATIONE DVCE DISCORDIA DEME[N]S / QVA[M] RESERARE FERI TE[N]TAT VIOLE[N]TIA MARTIS / TI[M]PORE FVGA[N]TVR FVRIAE PAX REGE PHILIPPO / AVSPICE PER BELGAS TALI IT DECORATA TRIV[M]PHO
zinspreuk (rechts onderaan): (vijfde kolom) Or est en nostre Gaule a la fin reuenue, / La Paix, des ennemis si lo[n]guement tenue, / Vielle Haijnne, et Amour de son propre, or se voit / Le tronc du tout brise qui la roue arrestoit / La foij pousse le char, lamour compagne faict; (zesde kolom) Que le traicte produit aux Estats son effect, / Et le peuple conduit par raison et concorde, / Suffoque tant quis peut ce monstre de Discorde, / Pendant que son bon Roij ses domaines refaict
opschrift (in het midden): PACIS TRIVMPHANTIS DELINIATIO
opschrift (rechts in het midden): Coniuratu[m] Foedus
opschrift (rechts boven): Dissociata locis concordi Pace ligabo
opschrift (onderaan in het midden): BELLVM INTESTINVM
opschrift (links in het midden): Belgia
opschrift (bovenaan): Tempus, Alecto, Tisiphone, Megera, Furor, Violentia, Discordia, Ratio, Populus, Charitas, Pax, Foedus, Concordia, Livor, Proprium Commodum, Ordines Belg[iae]
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Dimension
geheel, height: 159 cm
geheel, width: 198 cm
met lijst, height: 190.2 cm
met lijst, width: 230 cm
met lijst, depth: 9.5 cm
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