Lot Essay
The prototype is in the Prado, Madrid. It is possible that the present painting is a Spanish copy, with slight differences in the sitter's right hand, dating from the seventeenth century.
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Portrait of the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand, three-quarter-length, in a gold-embroidered doublet and a gold-embroidered crimson coat with a crimson sash, a baton in his right hand
Details
Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 Blackfriars)
Portrait of the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand, three-quarter-length, in a gold-embroidered doublet and a gold-embroidered crimson coat with a crimson sash, a baton in his right hand
oil on canvas
41 x 33½ in. (104.1 x 85 cm.)
Portrait of the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand, three-quarter-length, in a gold-embroidered doublet and a gold-embroidered crimson coat with a crimson sash, a baton in his right hand
oil on canvas
41 x 33½ in. (104.1 x 85 cm.)
Provenance
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London.