Bellerophon Slays the Chimera; Entry of Ferdinand into Antwerp in 1635 (no. 40)

Bellerophon on the flying horse Pegasus kills the Chimaera. The main scene on the rear of the triumphal arch at the Sint-Michiels Abbey, erected in the Sint-Michielsstraat, the end point of the entry. With a five-line Latin inscription. Marked top right: pag. 162B. Plate no. 40 in a set of 43 plates illustrating the publication describing the entry of Cardinal-Infant Ferdinand of Austria into Antwerp on 17 April 1635 as the new Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands.