page_title: Franciscus van der Steen
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Franciscus van der Steen / Work
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: publicationsrela00bert (find matches) Title: (Publications relating to the wedding of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Margarita Teresa, Infanta of Spain) Year: 1666 (1660s) Authors: Bertali, Antonio, 1605-1669 Bouttats, Gerard, b. ca. 1630 Carducci, Alessandro Fitzing, Johann Heinrich, b. 1628. Epithalamisches Emblema Fürst, Paul, ca. 1605-1666 Hoey, Nicolas de Hoffman, Johann, 17th cent Küsel, Melchior, 1626-1683 Lang, Moritz, 17th cent Lerch, Johann Martin, fl. 1659-1684 Luin, Urban, 17th cent Ossenbeeck, Jan van, 1624?-1674 Pasetti, Carlo, fl. 1639-1695 Sbarra, Francesco, 17th cent. Contesa dell' aria e dell' acqua. German Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich, ca. 1623-1680. Arie per il balletto à cavallo Steen, Franciscus van der, 1625-1672 Subjects: Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-1705 Margarita Teresa, Infanta of Spain, Empress, consort of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1651-1673 Royal weddings Horse ballet Horse processions Tournaments Fireworks Publisher: Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Franciscus van der Steen was a Flemish painter and engraver who was active in Vienna. He is now mainly known for his reproductive prints after master paintings and various publications containing portraits of prominent persons. No known paintings are currently attributed to him.
context_section_description: Franciscus van der Steen is principally known as a reproductive engraver who made engravings after old masters and contemporary artists. The archival sources also show him in the role of a painter. The Liechtenstein books of accounts record that van der Steen was paid 465 gulden for paintings in August 1665, 120 gulden in September of the same year and a further 34 gulden and 30 kreutzer for five more paintings in July 1667.  No paintings are currently attributed to van der Steen.
  He worked together with Nikolaus van Hoy, Jan van Ossenbeeck and others on engravings for David Teniers the Younger's Theatrum Pictorium.  This Theatrum Pictorium is a shortened name of a book published in 1660 in Antwerp by David Teniers the Younger's brother Abraham Teniers in Antwerp. It was a catalog of 243 Italian paintings in the collection of over 1300 pictures owned by Teniers' employer, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.  It contained engravings of these paintings engraved after small models (modelli ) that Teniers had painted after the originals. A second edition with page numbers was published in 1673. Nikolaus van Hoy worked as the intermediary draughtsman for several of the prints as he translated the modelli made by Teniers into drawings.  These were then engraved by van der Steen and 11 other engravers. The publication ends with an engraving by van der Steen after a drawing by Nicolaus van Hoy of a view of the Stallburg gallery of the Archduke.
  He also worked with the Antwerp publisher and engraver Joannes Meyssens on portrait engravings for Het Gulden Cabinet der Edel Vry Schilderconst, the book of artist biographies written by Cornelis de Bie first published in 1662.  He worked again with Nikolaus van Hoy and Jan van Ossenbeeck on a publishing project on the occasion of the wedding of Emperor Leopold I and Margaret Theresa of Spain.  It describes the festival, including a horse ballet, that was performed in January 1667, under the direction of Alessandro Carducci, with floats designed by Carlo Pasetti and a text written by Francesco Sbarra. The book was published in 1667 in Vienna under the title Sieg-Streit Deß Lufft vnd Wassers ('Fight between air and water').
  He further collaborated on the publication Historia di Leopoldo Cesare written by Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato and published in Vienna by the Flemish publisher from Antwerp Johann Baptist Hacque.  The first and second volumes of the book were published in 1670 and a third one in 1674. The first volume described the political and military successes of Emperor Leopold I between 1656 and 1670.  It was mainly illustrated with prints made by Flemish and Dutch printmakers after designs by other Netherlandish artists as well as artists from Germany and Italy. The illustrations mainly depict portraits of European monarchs and important aristocrats, castle scenes, battle scenes, maps and ceremonies. Apart from van der Steen, the Dutch and Flemish artists who contributed to the work were Frans Geffels, Cornelis Meyssens, Jan de Herdt, Gerard Bouttats, Adriaen van Bloemen, Sebastian van Dryweghen and Jacob Toorenvliet.  German artists Moritz Lang, Johann Martin Lerch and Johann Holst and Italians Il Bianchi, Marco Boschini and Leonardus Hen.t Venetiis also contributed.
caption: Float from the 'Sieg-Streit Deß Lufft vnd Wassers'
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