Object details
Accession number
P26w15
Provenance
Commissioned for Pope Pius IV (Giovanni Angelo Medici, 1495–1565) in 1561.
Collection of Marchese Fabrizio Paolucci di Calboli, Forli.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner in the summer of 1897 for between £15,000-20,000 through Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian. (as Titian, Portrait of Maria of Austria)
Marks
Seventeen red seals on the vertical stretcher members have all been crushed and flattened.
Painted on the reverse of the original canvas (upper left corner): 1132
Bibliography
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 4, no. 3. (as Titian, portrait of Anne of Austria and child)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 22. (as Titian, portrait of Anne of Austria and her Mother)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 96-98. (as Sánchez Coello)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 228-29. (as Sánchez Coello)
Ronald Hilton. Handbook of Hispanic Source Materials and Research Organizations in the United States (Stanford, California, 1956), p. 195. (as Sánchez Coello)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 33 (18 Apr. 1965), p. 2. (as Sánchez Coello)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 216-18. (as Sánchez Coello)
Eric Young. "Notes on Spanish Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Fenway Court (1979), pp. 24-35, no. 7. (as follower of Anthonis Mor)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 48-49, 51-62, 82-83, 86-87, 90-91, 93, 103, 118, 129-30, 147.
Maria Kusche. "Sofonisba Anguissola en España, retratista en la corte de Felipe II junto a Alonso Sanchez Coello y Jorge de la Rua." Archivo Español de arte 62, no. 248 (1989), pp. 402-403, fig. 6. (as Sofonisba Anguissola)
Mina Gregori et. al. Sofonisba Anguissola e le sue sorelle. Exh. cat (Cremona: Centro culturale, 1994), pp. 33, 36-38, 45, 98, 128, 130-131, 135, 137, 141, 145, 151, 246, tav. 4.
Sylvia Ferino-Pagden and Maria Kusche, Sofonisba Anguissola. A Renaissance Woman (Washington: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1995), frontispiece, p. 66.
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000).
Fernando Checa Cremades. Filepe II: Un Príncipe del Renacimento. Exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 1998), p. 361, no. 64.
Annemarie Jordan. "Los retratos de Juana de Austria posteriores a 1554: La imagen de una Princesa de Portugal, una Regente de España y una Jesuita." Reales Sitios (Spring 2002), p. 52, ill. p. 49, p. 62 cat. no. 14. (as attributed to Sofonisba Anguissola)
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), pp. 90-91.
Helen H. Reed and Trevor J. Dadson. La princesa de Éboli Cautiva del rey: Vida de Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda 1540-1592 (Madrid, 2015), pp. 161, 164.
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