LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
68.90 in. (175.00 cm.) (height) by 39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (width)
Literature:
L. Fornari Schianchi, "Collezionismo e committenza tra potere e spirito religioso nel ducato farnesiano", in A. Emiliani, ed., La pittura in Emilia e in Romagna. Il Seicento, Bologna, 1993, II, pp. 10, 17 (ill.) and pp. 28-29, note 7, as Anthonis Mor. M. Kusche, El caballero cristiano y su dama - el retrato de representacio´n de cuerpo entero, Madrid, 2004, p. 354, fig. 317, as Sánchez Coello. A. Pérez de Tudela, “Alejandro Farnesio en la corte de España (1559-1561 en particular)”, re-edited version to be published in K. De Jonge y H. Cools, eds., Alessandro Farnese e le Fiandra, acts of the international congress at the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Palais des Académies, 20-22 October 2005, forthcoming. G. Bertini, “Un altro quadro con il ritratto del Principe Alessandro”, in L’inventario di Margherita d’Austria, Introduzione di Silvia Mantini, Turin, 2012, p. 72, note 138, as Anthonis Mor. A. Pérez de Tudela, Antonio Moro y Alonso Sánchez Coello en la corte española junto a Alejandro Farnesio (1559-1563), unpublished manuscript, 2014. A. Pérez de Tudela, “El príncipe don Carlos de Austria”, in C. García-Frías and J. Jordán de Urries, eds., El Retrato en las Colecciones Reales de Patrimonio Nacional. De Juan de Flandes a Antonio López, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, 2015, as Anthonis Mor. A. Donati, Anthonis Mor / Antonio Moro alla corte di Spagna dagli esordi al ritorno nei Paesi Bassi, unpublished manuscript, as Anthonis Mor.
Provenance:
(Possibly) Margaret of Austria, inventory of 26 February 1586, as portrait of Alessandro "when he returned from Spain", and by inheritance to Alessandro Farnese, and by descent, (possibly) inventories of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, 1644, no. 240 and 1653, no. 7. Art market, Italy, where acquired in the 1930s by Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata (1877-1947), and by inheritance to the present owner.