Under a sky filled with leaden-gray storm clouds, Saint Andrew and Saint Francis of Assisi stand next to each other in conversation. The apostle appears on the viewer’s left, wearing a cobalt blue tun [+]
This painting entered the holdings of the Museo del Prado as an anonymous Flemish work, although the 1873 catalogue reports the attribution to the Le Nain brothers proposed by M. de Chennevière [+]
Until very recently there was total confusion as to the origin of this painting and the circumstances surrounding its entry into the Royal Collection. Its original owner was formerly thought to have b [+]
Here we are presented with a young man, elegantly dressed in black, standing within a landscape beside a horse whose mane is richly adorned with blue ribbons and bows. The man wears his hair very long [+]
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Francisco Bazán was a buffoon at the court of Charles II between 1676 and 1689. Carreño, who was reaching the end of his career when he painted this work, depicts the sitter as if delive [+]
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The son of Felipe IV (1605-1665) and Mariana of Austria (1634-1696), Carlos II (1661-1700) was the last King of the Hapsburg Dynasty in Spain. He appears dressed in black, with the chain of the Golden [+]
Mariana de Austria (1634-1696) era hija del emperador Fernando III y de su esposa María. Contrajo matrimonio en 1649, cuando tenía 15 años, con su tío el rey de España Felipe IV, que contaba con 44 añ [+]
Piotr Ivanovich Potemkin (1617-1700) arrived at the Spanish court as ambassador for the Grand Duke of Moscow, Feodor II, in 1668 and returned in 1681-82. Carreño’s portrait is thought to be fro [+]
This is a significant example of Claudio Coello’s style and one of his finest representations of the Immaculate Conception. It admirably associates grace and delicate modesty with the triumphal emphas [+]
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 scep [+]
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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 [+]
Juan de Arellano specialised in painting pictures of flowers, which brought him great artistic and financial success. Here, he depicts a wicker container with a bouquet of tulips, roses, campanulas an [+]
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 [+]
Inscribed in brown ink on a strip of paper pasted at the bottom of the sheet: CHERUBINUS ALBERTIUS PICTOR ET ARCHITEC. FECIT QUI VIX AN. LXIII. DEC. MDCXV. The eighteenth-century inscription written o [+]
Es copia concluida y de muy buena calidad de un cuadro de Maratti, hoy perdido, en la Capilla Ludovisi de la Iglesia de San Isidoro Agrícola de Roma, pintado por el artista en 1656. De esta obra se co [+]