Portrait of Bishop Antonius Triest and His Brother Eugene, a Capuchin

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Portrait of Bishop Antonius Triest and His Brother Eugene, a Capuchin is a 1652 oil on canvas painting by David Teniers the Younger, now in the Hermitage Museum, to which it was transferred from Boris Alekseevich Kurakin's collection.^[1]

To the right is Antoine Triest, who had been made Bishop of Bruges in 1617 and Bishop of Ghent in 1622. He was also a noted art collector and arts patron and bought works from Teniers and other Flemish painters. He is shown in prayer holding a rosary. To the left his brother, a Capuchin Friar, holds up a shield showing the five wounds of Christ, whilst the shelf in the background bears statuettes of Penitent St Jerome and Flagellation of Christ.

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