Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain

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Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain

Andrés López Polanco (Spanish, active 1608, died 1641)LinkedCulture matchlcp-ca5ba786049f

Date
c. 1610
Medium
Oil on canvas
Culture
Spain
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
111637

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Margaret of Austria, wife of King Philip III of Spain, stands resplendently dressed, her royal authority conveyed through the portrait’s formality as well as her sumptuous attire. She is bedecked with jewels: Her brocade skirt is held closed with decorative clasps called puntas; large pearls and gemstones adorn her chest, waist, and arms. The rigidity and painstaking detail of portraits of the Spanish royal family were traditional for paintings that were frequently copied to serve as diplomatic gifts. This painting is a copy of a portrait of the queen by the official court painter Juan Pantoja de la Cruz (Museo del Prado, Madrid).

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Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Sydney Gorham and Mrs. Walter Kohler, Jr.;Mrs. James Conger, Eugene McVoy in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McVoy
Provenance
Arthur Meeker, Chicago [according to a notation on the Registrar’s record]. Eugene McVoy (died 1929), Chicago, by 1927 [lent to the Art Institute in 1927, as Sánchez Coello, receipt R3417]; by descent to his children Corinne McVoy Gorham, Marie Celeste McVoy Kohler (later McFadden), Jean Dorothy McVoy Conger and Eugene J. McVoy Jr.; given by them to the Art Institute, 1942.

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Object type
AAT300033618

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