The Infant Margarita Teresa After Diego Velazquez Portrait Painting Framed 32"

Description

Still Life Portrait of the Infant Margarita Teresa, After Diego Velazquez. The oil painting is on canvas and signed lower right. Framed in Baroque manner with ornate detail, scalloped corners and gold finish.

Infanta Margarita Teresa (1651–1673) was the first child of King Philip IV of Spain (1605–1665) and his second wife, Mariana of Austria (1634–1696). One of the couple’s few surviving children, she married her mother’s brother, the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I (1640–1705) in 1666. Betrothed at a young age, Velázquez painted three portraits of the princess, in 1654, 1656 and 1659, to be sent to the Court in Vienna, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The infanta was described as being exceptionally beautiful, and she appears thus in these portraits. Their compositions hardly vary, yet they beautifully chronicle their subject’s evolution from a young infant to a princess, and reveal with profound sensitivity her childishness behind the façade of royal dignity.

Condition

Very Good; Gently Used

Dimensions

31.5" x 3" x 27.5"; canvas 24" x 20"