Brussels, Interior of St Gudule’s Church. The tomb of the Archduke Ernest of Austria in the Gothic cathedral at Ste. Gudule and Ste. Michael as the most important sacred building of the city accommodating also the entombment of the painters, while in the choir of which on Oct. 22, 1555, the capital of the Order of the Golden Fleece elected Philipp II of Spain to their Grand Master. It was a part of the “Splendid zenith in the sequence of abdications (on behalf of Karl V) and inthronements” (Heinz Schilling). In the foreground reading priest with two acolytes. Lithograph in colours by François Stroobant (1819 Brussels 1916). 1851. 34,5 x 22,1 cm.

Boetticher II/2, 855. – “Belgian architectural painter … known by works and drawings to art history, especially of his homeland. Several drawings lithographed by himself.”
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