Marie de Medici (1575-1642)

This composition occurs in many versions and we cannot be sure which one is recorded here. There is a three-quarter length at Longford Castle and half-length sold at Dorotheum Vienna 13/10/2010, lot 578, 114 x 95

Van der Doort c.1639

Sir Anthony van Dyck

Queen's Mother of France, sitting on a chair, in a black habit, holding in her right hand a handful of roses, life-size, half-length

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 26, № 22
Frame: 
carved gilded frame
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
Location: 
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 36
Identification certainty: 
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