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Spanish School. Early 19th century.

Spanish School. Early 19th century. "Portrait of Maria Isabel of Braganza" Oil on canvas. 120 x 106 cm. Maria Isabel de Bragança, daughter of John VI of Portugal and the Infanta Carlota Joaquina de Borbón, was born in Palácio de Queluz, Portugal, on 19 May 1797. In 1816 she married King Ferdinand VII of Spain with the aim of strengthening relations between the two Iberian countries. The Infanta was noted for her high level of culture and her love of art, which prompted her initiative to bring together works of art belonging to Spanish monarchs to create what was to become the Prado Museum, being its true architect. In fact, the Prado states that "Pedro de Madrazo, in the catalogue of the Royal Museum's paintings of 1854, goes so far as to say that it was the queen who "... designed the museum". There is a posthumous portrait of her exhibited in the Prado's Portrait Gallery, dated 1829, by Bernardo LópezPiquer (inv. P000863). This portrait, which was in turn inspired by an oval bust portrait painted in the year of the Queen's wedding by the painter's father, Vicente López, depicts Maria Isabel de Braganza as the founder of the Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture. This canvas, as the critic and historian Gabriele Finaldi states in the catalogue of the exhibition "Spanish Portraiture in the Prado. From Goya to Sorolla", represents an "emblematic image for the history of the Prado Museum". Unfortunately, our sitter did not have the pleasure of attending the inauguration of the Museo del Prado, as she died a few months earlier, in December 1818, without any possibility of visiting the museum during her lifetime, which she nevertheless left us as a legacy. Bibliographic reference: - Museo del Prado (n.d.). "María Isabel de Braganzacomo fundadora delMuseo del Prado".https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/maria-isabel-de-braganza-como-fundadora-del-museo/a7a1a933-6dc5-4636-b963-224d42e77110

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Spanish School. Early 19th century.

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