Thursday, August 4, 2016

Peter Paul Rubens - Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria 1606

 
Peter Paul Rubens
Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria 1606

The Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria is an oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens, dating to 1606. It is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It was commissioned by Marquess Giacomo Massimiliano Doria of Genoa, and shows his wife (and cousin) shortly after their wedding in 1605; she came from the equally prominent Spinola family. He died in 1613 and she remarried another Doria. It has been cut several times on each side, removing the garden shown in the background and the lower part of the figure.

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