Marguerite de Lorraine, Duchess of Orleans (1615-1672)
studio of Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1632 (bears date)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1867 x 1162 mm (73 1/2 x 45 3/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446771
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Marguerite de Lorraine, Duchess of Orleans (1615-1672), studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), inscribed (indistinctly): A VAN DYCK F Ao 1632. A full-length portrait, standing to right in an apartment, head turned towards the spectator, left hand resting on a table, right by her side; she wears a white satin dress richly embroidered with silver braid, large white sleeves and pink bows, white lace collar and cuffs and loose black coat.
Provenance
Duke of Osuña (according to 1892 sale catalogue, which contains a considerable number of pictures with the same provenance); Murrieta {Although the statement in the sale catalogue that it was part of the collection of 'Messrs. Murrieta' might suggest a firm of dealers, they were in fact members of a family, clearly at one time of immense wealth, and with huge collections, primarily of modern British and Foreign paintings and watercolours. Certain of them held individual sales of parts of their collection, all at Christie's: José de Murrieta, of 11 Kensington Palace Gardens (23 & 24 May 1873 and 4 & 5 Dec. 1874: the latter in fact by order of the Fire Officers, of pictures salvaged from a fire there); Mariano de Murrieta (6 March 1875 & 23-26 Feb. 1894); and [Adriano de Murrieta], Marquis de Santurce (7 April & 16 June 1883, and 25 April 1891 - this last saying "removed from Kensington Palace Gardens"). Messrs. Murrieta together had three gigantic sales (suggesting a collective financial crash [+ they were indeed involved in Barings' South American operations.]: 30 April - 3 May 1892; 14 - 15 May 1892; and 27 Jan. - 4 Feb. 1893. In the catalogue of one of these, the pictures were said to have been removed from Southover, Kensington Palace Gardens, and [4] Carlton House Terrace. José de Murrieta was the first person to - try to - sell a Tissot at auction in England, On the Thames: the frightened heron (24 May 1873, lot 315, b.i. at 570 gns.); Antonio de Murrieta, Marquis de Santurce, later made unsuccessful attempts to sell both it (15 June 1873, lot 164, b.i. at 260 gns.) and The Crack Shot (7 April 1883, lot 151, bought in at 210 gns.) - which is now at Wimpole. These were, however, the only Tissots put up for auction, and their taste seems otherwise to have inclined rather to Alma-Tadema - or to even safer English artists; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948) shortly before his death
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
A VAN DYCK F. Ao 1632 (indistinctly)
Makers and roles
studio of Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist