Name: FOLLOWER OF DIEGO RODRÍGUEZ DE SILVA Y VELÁZQUEZ
Brand: Portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria (1634-1696), half-length
Price: 28000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

FOLLOWER OF DIEGO RODRÍGUEZ DE SILVA Y VELÁZQUEZ
Portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria (1634-1696), half-length
oil on canvas, unframed
28¹⁄₄ x 20⁷⁄₈ in. (71.5 x 52.9 cm.)

M. Cordova, Madrid, from whom acquired by,
King Louis Philippe I of France (1773-1850), Paris, by 1838; his deceased sale, Christie's, London, 7 May 1853, lot 150, as 'Velázquez de Silva', for 176 gns. to Rutley (according to Mayer, Lopez Rey, and Baticle and Marinas, loc. cit.).
Prince Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, Duc d'Aumale (1822-1897) (according to Lopez Rey and Baticle and Marinas, loc. cit.).
with Theron J. Blakeslee (1853-1914), New York; his deceased sale, American Art Association, New York, 21 April 1915, lot 50, as Velázquez (according to Mayer, Lopez Rey, and Baticle and Marinas, loc. cit.).
Albert E. Smith, New York, and by whom sold,
[Property of Mr. Albert E. Smith, New York]; American Art Association, New York, 3 February 1921, lot 81, as Velázquez (according to Lopez Rey and Baticle and Marinas, loc. cit.).
with Ehrich Galleries, New York.
Acquired by the Hispanic Society of America by 1925.

Notice des tableaux de la Galerie Espagnole exposés dans les salles du Musée Royal au Louvre, Paris, 1838, no. 307, as Velázquez.
C.B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo, New York and London, 1883, p. 296, no. 243b, as Velázquez.
Miscellaneous Collection of Notable Paintings, 1921, no. 81, as Velázquez (according to the museum file).
Hispanic Society of America, List of Paintings, New York, 1925, no. A184, as School of Velázquez.
A.L. Mayer, Velázquez, a catalogue raisonné of the pictures and drawings, London, 1936, p. 116, no. 490, as a copy after Velázquez.
R. Ford, ‘Sale of Louis-Philippe's Spanish pictures’, The Athenaeum, no. 1333, 14 May 1853, p. 594, as a copy after Velázquez.
J. López Rey, Velázquez: a catalogue raisonné of his oeuvre, London, 1963, p. 242, no. 358, as a copy after Velázquez and location unknown.
J. Baticle and C. Marinas, La Galerie espagnole de Louis-Philippe au Louvre, 1838-1848, Paris, 1981, p. 200, no. 307, as a copy after Velázquez and location unknown.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Galerie Espagnole, 1838-1848 (according to Baticle and Marinas, loc. cit.).

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This composition is modelled after a full-length portrait of Mariana of Austria in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (inv. no. P001191). The present painting is documented in the museum's file as having once belonged to King Louis Philippe. It hung in the Louvre's Spanish gallery until its closure 1848 and was later included in his 1853 sale at Christie’s London (loc. cit.). According to August L. Mayer, writing in 1936, the painting sold in Theron Blakeslee’s 1915 sale and was acquired there by Albert Smith. Mayer gives the last line of provenance as Ehrich Galleries, though without a date, and does not cite a location for the portrait at the time of publication (loc. cit.). José López Rey published the painting in 1963, adding that Smith had sold it in New York, in 1921 and that it was on the New York art market again in 1936, though without naming Ehrich Galleries (loc. cit.). This last line was revised by Jeannine Baticle and Cristina Marinas in 1981, who published the painting as with Ehrich Galleries in 1936. We know from the Hispanic Society’s List of Paintings, however, that the portrait had already entered the museum’s collection by 1925. It seems likely, then, that both Lopez Rey and Baticle and Marinas based their last line of provenance on that of Mayer, assuming the painting to have been with Ehrich Galleries at the time of his publication in 1936.