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Philippe de Champaigne is the principal French portraitist of the seventeenth century. This picture is a copy of one the portraits (P2234) sent in 1655 by Anne of Austria, the wife of Louis XIII, to her brother, King Philip IV of Spain, as a means of enhancing relations between the courts of the two countries. This canvas is one of a group of portraits collected by María Luisa de Orleans (1
Philippe de Champaigne is the principal French portraitist of the seventeenth century. This picture (and P2231, P2233, P2234, P2300, P2240, P2291, P2298) was sent in 1655 by Anne of Austria, the wife of Louis XIII, to her brother, King Philip IV of Spain, as a means of enhancing relations between the courts of the two countries.
