Equestrian portrait of Francisco de Moncada

Equestrian Portrait of Francisco de Moncada is a 1634 oil on canvas painting by Antony van Dyck, one of his most famous portraits, now INV 1240 in Room 850 (d) of the Louvre Museum, which acquired it from the Palazzo Braschi in Rome in 1798.

It shows Francisco de Moncada, who for one year was governor of the Spanish Netherlands. It was one of a pair of portraits of Moncada simultaneously commissioned in 1634, just after his return to his native Flanders after a stay in London - the other is in the seated Portrait of Francisco de Moncada (Kunsthistorisches Museum). He probably copied the pose from a drawing of a horse-rider seen face on by his former master Peter Paul Rubens, whilst Charles Coypel in turn produced a copy of the work.

The two best-known versions of the portrait are in Spain: one in the Museu de Belles Arts in Valencia and the other in the collection of the Duke of Alba. The …

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