POURBUS, Frans the Younger
(b. 1569, Antwerpen, d. 1622, Paris)

Portrait of Eleonora of Mantua as a Child

c. 1605
Oil on canvas, 64 x 49 cm
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

Pourbus was a member of a Flemish family of painters. A portraitist, he painted the portraits of noblemen in several countries of Europe.

Eleonora Gonzaga (1598-1655) was the daughter of Vincenzo Gonzaga and Eleonora de' Medici.