Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria

The Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria is a 1638 painting by Antony van Dyck showing Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I of England. Charles had previously commissioned van Dyck to produce a triple portrait of himself to send to Italy so that Bernini could produce a bust of him. When the bust arrived, the queen ordered a bust of herself by Bernini and commissioned van Dyck to produce a similar triple portrait. The left-facing profile and full-on view are in the Royal Collection,[1] whilst the right-facing profile is probably the portrait of the queen now in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.[2]

Reconstruction of the portrait, showing the profile from Memphis on the left.

Bibliography
  1. https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/400159/queen-henrietta-maria-1609-1669
  2. http://www.brooksmuseum.org/brooks-highlights
  • Gian Pietro Bellori, Vite de' pittori, scultori e architecti moderni, Torino, Einaudi, 1976.
  • Didier Bodart, Van Dyck, Prato, Giunti, 1997.
  • Justus Müller Hofstede, Van Dyck, Milano, Rizzoli/Skira, 2004.
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