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Catalog of Portraits, 1909-1911, 1929 [page 13]
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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. This paintings has been lost, but there exists an interesting bust of life size, purchased in Spain, by the Paris firm of Trotti, which has recently come into the possession of Mr. H. C. Frick of Pittsburgh. It represents the Queen with such a juvenile appearance that she looks almost like a child, but with the sure and unmistakable touch of Velasquez, as is evident in the exquisite white of the dress, so characteristic of the master--in the ribbon of the head-dress,--the collar and the delicate flesh tones, as in the other
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