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Flemish School, late 16th Century
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- Portrait of the Archduchess Clara Eugenia of Austria (1566 - 1633), three-quarter length, holding a lace handkerchief and resting a hand on the back of a hair
- oil on canvas
Exhibited
New York, American Museum of Natural History, Pearls a Natural History, 8 Tokyo, National Science Museum, October 2005 - 22 January 2006, London, Natural History Museum 15 April - 6th August 2006.
Catalogue Note
Archduchess Clara Eugenia of Austria was the daughter of King Phillip II of Spain and his third wife Elizabeth of Valois. She was created viceroy of the Spanish Netherlands in 1598 and she married Archduke Albert of Austria in 1599. She remained viceroy after Albert's death in 1621 until her own in 1633. During their reign the arts experienced an unprecedented flourishing in the prosperity after the revolt of the Northern Provinces.