Portrait of a Lady

1839. Oil on canvas.
On display elsewhere

This work was acquired bearing the name of Portrait of the artist’s wife. A comparison of the subject’s features with known portraits of Gutiérrez de la Vega’s wife, suggests that she is not in fact the subject of this work.

Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado. Catálogo general, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2015, p.248

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Inventory number: P004178
Author: José Gutiérrez de la Vega y Bocanegra
Title: Portrait of a Lady
Date: 1839
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Height: 88 cm; Width: 71 cm
Provenance: Acquired for the Museo de Arte Moderno, 1931; transferred to the Museo del Prado, 1971.
Entry date: 1971

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Espinós, Adela; Orihuela, Mercedes y Royo Villanova, Mercedes, El "Prado disperso". Cuadros depositados en Madrid. VI. Ministerio de Industria, Boletín del Museo del Prado, II, 1981, pp. 175.

Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado. Catálogo general, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2015, pp. 248.