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After Albert’s death Isabella was to rule over the Netherlands for another twelve years as Governess General. The exhibition briefly outlines this period. Her exceptional piety is again expressed in the Habit and veil of Isabella as a tertiary (Brussels, karmelietessenklooster), in Van Dijck’s Portrait of the Infanta Isabella as a Franciscan (Turin, Galleria Sabaudia, 279), in Pieter Snayers’ Pilgrimage of the Infanta Isabella to Laken in 1623 (Brussels, KMSK, 3541), and in the tapestry from the Blessed Sacrament series St Clare among the Doctors of the Church (Madrid, Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales). |
Attention will also be given to the foremost political and military triumph of Isabella’s governess-generalship: the taking of Breda. This will be through Anselina’s, Las Lanzas (Madrid, Real Academia de San Fernando) and Herman Hugo’s Obsidio Bredanae Armis Philippi IIII. Finally the following objects will evoke Isabella’s death: Fragments of cloth from a cushion from the tomb of Isabella (Brussels, Sint-Michielskathedraal), Jean Puget de la Serre’s Mausolée érigé à la memoire immortelle de... Isabelle (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional), Cornelius Galle’s Catafalque of Isabella (Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus) and Alexius Voet’s Portrait of Isabella lying in state as a Franciscan (Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek).
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