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heading in green ink: History and Criticism of the Portrait.

During the absence of his court-painter in Italy, Philip IV contracted a second marriage with his niece Marianna who was then only fourteen years of age. The fulfillment of his wish to possess a portrait of his young wife by the hand of his favorite painter would have been too long deferred by the absence of the latter. The King therefore commissioned Mago to paint the Queen.