Mariana of Austria as a Widow

Former TitlePortrait of Donã Mariana of Austria, Queen Mother and Regent of Spain

Former TitlePortrait of Donã Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain

Artist Juan Carreno de Miranda (Spanish, 1614 - 1685)

Dateearly 1670s

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 40 7/16 × 34 1/4 × 1 1/4 inches (102.71 × 87 × 3.18 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number31-99

SignedNone

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionThree-quarter-length figure of Queen Maria Anna seated at writing table, wearing white garment of a nun with black mantle, right hand resting on manuscript on table, left hand and arm resting on arm of the chair.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

No known exhibition history at this time.

Provenance

Purchased through Maxwell Blake (1877-1959), Tangiers, Morocco, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931.

Published References

Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La Pintura Española Fuera de España (Historia y Catálogo) (Madrid Espasa-Calpe, 1958), 129.

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 263.

Marilyn Stokstad, “Spanish Art from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972), 33-34, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol.1, Art of the Occident, 5^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 262.

Pilar López Vizcaíno and Ángel Mario Carreño, Juan Carreño Miranda: Vida y Obra (Oviedo: Cajastur, 2007), 334-335, (repro.).

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