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Description: | The small girl in this portrait is traditionally thought to be a Spanish princess. The style is close to that of Miguel Jacinto Menéndez, court painter to Philip V, who was the first Spanish king of the House of Bourbon. The sitter may be the King's daughter, the Infanta Maria Ana Victoria, born in 1718. Her mother was Philip's second wife, Isabel Farnese. Maria Ana left for France when she was four years old, after her betrothal to the young Louis XV. Menéndez's work combines the influence of late seventeenth-century Spanish painting with the French taste introduced by the Bourbons. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Menéndez, Miguel Jacinto (Spanish painter; 1679-1734) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Spanish School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9025... | Go to resource |
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