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Portrait of Isabella of Bourbon
Follower of Peter Paul Rubens · c. 1630
Provenance
Ownership history
- Probably Quincy Adams Shaw (died 1908), Boston [according to Valentiner 1947; Valentiner knew the picture as early as 1931, since he wrote an expertise dated Detroit, April 25, 1931, on the back of a photo in the curatorial file]. A. and E. Silberman Galleries, New York, by 1946 [according to Valentiner 1947]; Chester D. Tripp, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1962.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Madrid, Palacio Real, El arte en la Corte de los Archiduques Alberto de Austria e Isabel Clara Eugenia: Un Reino Imaginado. December 2, 1999 - February 27, 2000, cat. 101 .
Literature
Published references
- W.R. Valentiner, “Rubens Paintings in America,” The Art Quarterly 9 (1946), p. 164, no. 105a.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1962-63, Chicago, 1963, p. 13.
- John Maxon, “Three Baroque Portraits,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57, no. 1 (1963), p. 2, ill. p. 3.
- J[ohn] M[axon], “A Great New Painting by Rubens,” Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago 62,no. 1 (1968), n.p.
- Frances Huemer, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XIX. Portraits, Brussels, 1977, p. 159, fig. 110.
- John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York, 1979, p. 242.
- Michael Jaffé, “Rubens’s Portrait of Isabella de Bourbon, Queen of Spain,” artibus et historiae no. 26 (1992), pp. 12, 14.
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