Live Auction 2511Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part II
Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
Lot 109 PROPERTY OF THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART, OHIO, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITION FUND

Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)

Portrait of Doña Polissena Spinola, Marchesa de Leganés (1600-1637), full-length, seated, in a black dress

Closed26 January 2011

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Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
Portrait of Doña Polissena Spinola, Marchesa de Leganés (1600-1637), full-length, seated, in a black dress
oil on canvas
72½ x 45 in. (184 x 114.3 cm.)

Probably brought from Italy by Alexander Freiherr, Baron of Spaen, Castle Moyland, near Cleve, 1660s, from whom purchased with the Castle by
Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg, Castle Moyland, Cleve, 1695, and by inheritance to
Frederick the Great (Frederick II), King of Prussia, from whom purchased with the Castle by
Adriaan von Steengracht, Castle Moyland, Cleve, in 1767, and by descent, until 1904 (?).
with Kleinberger Galleries, New York, 1911-1929.
with John Levy Galleries, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.F. McCann, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 21 February 1945, lot 52.
Ferdinand Howald, and by bequest to
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio.

Specialist note

Doña Polissena was the daughter of the Genoese General Ambrogio Spinola. She moved from her native Genoa to Madrid to become a lady-in-waiting to Queen Isabel in 1622, where she married Diego Felípe de Guzmán in 1628. Guzmán, the Marquis of Leganés, was the captain of the Spanish cavalry and artillery in the Low Countries and also sat for van Dyck. The portrait by van Dyck in the Prado, Madrid (204 x 130 cm.) is the prototype for the present picture and was painted in Genoa in the early 1620s.