Phillip of France, I Duke of Orléan, was the second son of Louis XIII of France and the Spanish Infanta Ana of Austria; born on September 21, 1640; died June 9, 1701, in Saint-Cloud. He was the father of Ma Luisa de Orleans, queen of Spain when she married Carlos II. This canvas is one of a group of portraits collected by María Luisa de Orleans (1662-1689), first wife of Carlos II of
This canvas is one of a group of portraits collected by María Luisa de Orleans (1662-1689), first wife of Carlos II of Spain, which would become part of the Royal Collection. Some of these paintings must have decorated the Queen´s Gallery in the Alcázar (Madrid), a representation space where the Queen launched a decorative and iconographic program of exaltation of her dynasty. Others
A wedding procession moves towards the church in a rural setting. The male members of both families lead the procession, headed by the groom. The flower in his hand is clearly a symbol of matrimony. The bride remains among the women. Both wear black clothing and a broad ruff collar, in keeping with early seventeenth-century style. The artist draws on the work of his father, Pieter Brueghel “the El
This is one of the elegant hunting scenes Wouwerman painted in the early 1660s that reveal his extraordinary talent as landscape artist. In these works, rather than depicting a hunting scene set in front of a landscape, as was typical of his A Stop at an Inn (P2152), he presents a vast panoramic view that occupies the entire surface and is adorned with figures of hunters and animals, diverse genre
These two paintings were first shown in Amsterdam in 1858. On that occasion the sitters were identified as Lambert Witsen and his wife Sara Nuyts owing to the woman`s purported similarity to the portrait of the latter (Amsterdam Historisch Museum, inv. SA 989) dated 1684 and included thus by Jan de Baen (1633-1702) in his work, Portrait of the Regents of the Spinhuis in Amsterdam.Moes (1897-1905)
This painting is ascribed to the school of Teniers in the royal collections, although after entering the Prado it is listed in the catalogue as an original work by that painter. This raises the question of when the signature D. Ten. on the lower right was added. The 1873 Prado publication describes this signature as apocryphal and assigns the painting to Hendryk Martensz. Rokes, called Sorgh or Zo
This work entered the Museo del Prado in 1916 titled Penitent Magdalene, along with almost ninety other Italian, French, Flemish and Spanish works from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, nearly all with religious subjects. They were part of the bequest of Pablo Bosch y Barrau, a financier who loved and studied art. In 1924 Hermann Voss attributed this painting to Antonio Zanchi (1631-1722), a
These two paintings (P7607 and P7608) were first shown in Amsterdam in 1858. On that occasion the sitters were identified as Lambert Witsen and his wife Sara Nuyts owing to the woman`s purported similarity to the portrait of the latter (Amsterdam Historisch Museum, inv. SA 989) dated 1684 and included thus by Jan de Baen (1633-1702) in his work, Portrait of the Regents of the Spinhuis in Amsterdam
Practically unknown until now, the present canvas has only been mentioned and reproduced in an article by Matías Díaz Padrón, former curator at the Prado, that was published in Archivo Español de Arte in 1980. The author, who had not seen the painting at first hand, attributed it to Pieter Brueghel the Younger.The canvas depicts the Saint Martin`s Day wine festival. The
The eldest son of Louis XIV and the Spanish Infanta María Teresa of Austria, Louis was born in 1661, receiving the title of Dauphin as heir to the French throne. Married to Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria, their son, the future Philip V of Spain (born in 1683), inherited from his father the so-called Dauphin’s Treasure, now in the Museo del Prado. Louis died in 1711.This canvas is one of a g
A portrait of Saint Barbara in profile on a black background. In her hands, she holds a tower, which was her symbol. A third-century Christian martyr, Saint Barbara was shut up in a tower and later decapitated by her father, Dioscoro, as punishment for neither marrying nor professing paganism. She is generally depicted with a sword and the palm leaf of martyrdom, as well as her tower. Here, howeve
Depicted when he was about seven years old, with Roman half-armor and a red robe, Philip II of Orléans (Saint Cloud, August 2, 1674 - Versailles, December 2, 1723) rests his left hand on a scepter bearing a fleur-de-lis. Born to Philip I of Orleáns (P2345, P2369, P2380) and Élisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Baveria (P2351), he was the grandson of Louis XIII and
Élisabeth Charlotte de Orléans (Saint Cloud, 09/13/1676 - Commercy, 12/23/1744), known as "Madame de Chartres" (since her brother, the future regent, before inheriting the title of Duke of Orléans took that of "Duke of Chartres" and she by extension, having no title, received that of "Mademoiselle de Chartres"). She was the daughter of Philip I of Orléans (brother of Lo
Phillip of France, I Duke of Orléan, was the second son of Louis XIII of France and the Spanish Infanta Ana of Austria; born on September 21, 1640; died June 9, 1701, in Saint-Cloud. He was the father of Ma Luisa de Orleans, queen of Spain when she married Carlos II.This canvas is one of a group of portraits collected by María Luisa de Orleans (1662-1689), first wife of Carlos II of
Cuadro de la serie con escenas de la vida de san Benito que adornaban el claustro del monasterio de San Martín. Felipe de Castro (ca. 1750/1764) se limitó a señalar que "las pinturas del claustro son de mano de Fray Juan Ricci" y Ponz (V, 1776, 5.a división, párrafo 15) que "las [pinturas] de la Vida del mismo Santo en el claustro son de Fr. Juan Rizi, Religioso de la Orden; y de su misma mano son
This canvas is one of a group of portraits collected by María Luisa de Orleans (1662-1689), first wife of Carlos II of Spain, which would become part of the Royal Collection. Some of these paintings must have decorated the Queen´s Gallery in the Alcázar (Madrid), a representation space where the Queen launched a decorative and iconographic program of exaltation of her dynasty. Others
Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Baveria, Madame Palatine, second wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and and mother of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. This canvas is one of a group of portraits collected by María Luisa de Orleans (1662-1689), first wife of Carlos II of Spain, which would become part of the Royal Collection. Some of these paintings must have decorated the Queen´s
Marie Louise of Bourbon (1662–1689)—or d’Orléans, as she was the daughter of the Duke d’Orléans—is represented as the Queen of Spain. Forced to abandon depictions adhering to the conventions of French portraiture in Pierre Mignard’s circle, she is here presented according to the traditional line of Spanish court portraiture. The symbols that reveal the personality given to the sitter