DOUVEN, Jan Frans
(b. 1656, Roermond, d. 1727, Düsseldorf)

Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg and Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici

before 1708
Oil on canvas, 243 x 182 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The marriage of Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz-Neuburg and Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, the daughter of Grand Duke Cosimo III, took place in 1691 and united the declining Medici dynasty to the Palatine dynasty, which supported the Habsburg Empire.

This official portrait was executed by Jan Frans van Douven, the official portraitist at the Elector's court.