Reception of the Dutch ambassador Hieronymus van Beverningk by the Spanish queen-regent Maria-Anna of Austria, 2 March 1671

Reception of the Dutch ambassador Hieronymus van Beverningk by the Spanish queen-regent Maria-Anna of Austria, 2 March 1671

SK-A-4128

signature: ‘C. Netscher’

Reception of the Dutch ambassador Hieronymus van Beverningk by the Spanish queen-regent Maria-Anna of Austria, 2 March 1671, by Caspar Netscher. The expansionist policies of France's King Louis XIV forced the Republic to look for allies. In 1670 a pact was agreed with Spain. Maria Anna of Austria, the Spanish queen regent, received the Dutch diplomat Hieronymus van Beverningk in secret on 2 March 1671 in Madrid. The queen regent is dressed as an abbess (head of a convent). Standing behind the table is one of her advisors. The woman on the right in the foreground is Joanne le Gibbon, wife of Van Beverningk.

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963)?

painter: Caspar Netscher

1671 - 1675

olieverf op doek

• depth 10.5 cm
• height 70 cm x width 79 cm

purchase 1967

Public domain

…; sale, John Rushout (1770-1859) Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, sold on the premises (Mr. Phillips), 26 July (19 August) 1859 sqq., no. 1589; …; anonymous sale, London (Christie´s ), 26 February 1937, no. 29, to Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill (1876-1964), Northwick Park;{Note RMA; Spencer-Churchill 1961, p. 13, no. 40.} his sale, London (Christie´s), 25 February 1966, no. 27, 2800 gns, to the dealer H. Terry-Engell, London;{Wiesemann 2002, p. 354; copy RKD.} from whom, £ 3,800, to the museum, 1967

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Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963)?

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