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Circle of DIEGO DE VELÁZQUEZ (Seville, 1599 - Madrid, 1660), 17th century ‘Infanta Margarita Teresa of Austria". Oil on canvas. Relined. Frame from the 19th century, with faults and damage due to xylophagous. It conserves remains of a label of the Board of Seizure. Measurements: 152 x 105 cm; 183 x 135 x 8 cm (frame). Margaret Theresa of Austria is depicted as an adolescent in this magnificent painting from the Spanish Golden Age. In its composition, in the type of framing (with the use of the curtain with a cordon) and, above all, in the virtuoso work of goldsmithing to define the qualities and psychology of the character, the oil painting belongs to the courtly circle of Velázquez, whose teachings it inherited with great mastery. Velázquez immortalised the young Margarita Teresa in ‘Las Meninas’, where the Infanta is no more than seven or eight years old. Here Margarita is somewhat older, and her defiant gaze denotes a haughtiness that is not typical of maturity, but rather subtly conveys a certain nonconformity characteristic of puberty. When our anonymous artist portrayed Marguerite, daughter of Philip IV and Mariana of Austria, she was engaged to Emperor Leopold of Austria, whom she would marry in 1666. Perhaps one of the rings she is wearing is a wedding ring. In her right hand she holds a closed fan and in her left a compass, an instrument of undeniable symbolic value (linked, in this case, to her expected ability to command). A frothy ruff enhances her aristocratic bearing, and silver brocades sparkle on her brown velvet dress. A diamond-studded brooch adorns her bosom and a lush headdress covers her golden hair. Her mother-of-pearl skin is illuminated by the faint redness of the crimson lips.An audacious play of glazes manages to extract an unusual depth from the clear gaze.
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Circle of DIEGO DE VELÁZQUEZ (Seville, 1599 - Madrid, 1660), 17th century ‘Infanta Margarita Teresa of Austria". Oil on canvas. Relined. Frame from the 19th century, with faults and damage due to xylophagous. It conserves remains of a label of the Board of Seizure. Measurements: 152 x 105 cm; 183 x 135 x 8 cm (frame). Margaret Theresa of Austria is depicted as an adolescent in this magnificent painting from the Spanish Golden Age. In its composition, in the type of framing (with the use of the curtain with a cordon) and, above all, in the virtuoso work of goldsmithing to define the qualities and psychology of the character, the oil painting belongs to the courtly circle of Velázquez, whose teachings it inherited with great mastery. Velázquez immortalised the young Margarita Teresa in ‘Las Meninas’, where the Infanta is no more than seven or eight years old. Here Margarita is somewhat older, and her defiant gaze denotes a haughtiness that is not typical of maturity, but rather subtly conveys a certain nonconformity characteristic of puberty. When our anonymous artist portrayed Marguerite, daughter of Philip IV and Mariana of Austria, she was engaged to Emperor Leopold of Austria, whom she would marry in 1666. Perhaps one of the rings she is wearing is a wedding ring. In her right hand she holds a closed fan and in her left a compass, an instrument of undeniable symbolic value (linked, in this case, to her expected ability to command). A frothy ruff enhances her aristocratic bearing, and silver brocades sparkle on her brown velvet dress. A diamond-studded brooch adorns her bosom and a lush headdress covers her golden hair. Her mother-of-pearl skin is illuminated by the faint redness of the crimson lips.An audacious play of glazes manages to extract an unusual depth from the clear gaze.
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