About the Artwork
Portrait of a Woman
early 17th century
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Spanish
Spanish
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 27 1/2 × 23 1/8 inches (69.9 × 58.7 cm) Framed: 37 1/4 × 33 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches (94.6 × 85.7 × 10.5 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of the Earhart Foundation
69.259
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on stretcher: This is the property of Lord Dungannon
Provenance
Dungannon collection (County Tyrone, Ireland)
Viscount Dungannon collection (Shropshire, Market Drayton, England)
Henry Reginald Corbet, Esq. (Adderly Hall, Market Drayton, England)
May 15, 1923, auction of Reginal Corbet, Esq. collection by (Sotheby's, London, England), lot 60. 1924, (Alfred L. Nicholson, London, England). (A. Siegfried Aram Gallery, New York, New York, USA). possibly ca. 1925, (E[h]rich Galleries, New York, New York, USA). Harry Boyd Earhart Foundation (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
1969-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Exhibition of Spanish Art. Exh. cat., Grafton Galleries. London, 1913-1914 [not found in publication].
Burlington Magazine, vol. 45, no. 256 (July 1924): p. 2, (repr.) [attributed to Velázquez; it illustrates editorial but there is no written reference to the work].
Mayer, August L. Zeitschrift fur bildende Kunst: Vol. 11924, p. 24 (ill.) [attributed to Velazquez].
Exhibition of Paintings by Velasquez and Murillo. Exh. cat., Ehrich Galleries. New York, 1925.
Mayer, A. L. Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures and Drawings. London, 1936, p. 135, no. 568, pl. 186 [property of A. L. Nicholson; as by Velázquez].
Soria, M.S. "José Leonardo, Velázquez's Best Disciple," Art Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4 (1950): pp. 270, 273-4, no. 20 [attributed to Jusepe Leonardo].
López-Rey, J. Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Oeuvre. London, 1963, p. 332, no. 607, pl. 433 [not by Velázquez].
Mazón de la Torre, M.A. Jusepe Leonardo y su tiempo. Saragossa [Zaragoza], 1977, pp. 192-4, (fig. 8) [as by Jusepe Leonardo].
Brown, J. Velázquez Painter and Courtier. New Haven and London, 1986 [not included in the catalogue].
The Soul of Spain. Exh. cat., Albuquerque Museum. Albuquerque, 2005, pp. 178-179, cat. 41, (repr.) [as unknown artist].
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Spanish, Portrait of a Woman, early 17th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Earhart Foundation, 69.259.
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