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- Reference number
- P01177
- Author
- Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y (Spanish)
- Title
- Queen Margarita de Austria, wife of Felipe III
- Chronology
- Ca. 1631
- Technique
- Oil
- Support
- Canvas
- Measures
- 297 cm x 309 cm
- School
- Spanish
- Theme
- Portrait. Royal/Imperial
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- RoyalCollection
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
An equestrian portrait of Queen
Margarita de Austria (1584-1611),
daughter of Archduke Carlos de
Austria-Stiria and Maria de
Baviera. She was the wife of Felipe
III (1578-1621).
The Queen is dressed sumptuously,
in keeping with her high station.
She wears a black outer skirt
embroidered with crowns and silver
adornments, a gauze ruff collar,
and feathers and pearls on her
head. She wears the “rich jewel” on
her chest, which consists of the
“Estanque” diamond and the
“Pilgrim” pearl.
The landscape in the background
includes a garden with boxwood
parterres on the left.
This painting hung on one of the
smaller sides of the Hall of
Kingdoms at Madrid’s Buen Retiro
Palace, although it was apparently
made earlier and then retouched for
its new location. It is listed in
the 1772 and 1794 inventories of
Madrid’s Royal Palace and entered
the Prado Museum collection in
1819.
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