Workshop of Sébastien Bourdon

(Montpellier 1616–1671 Paris)
Portrait of Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626–1689), half-length, seated, holding a scepter,
oil on canvas, 135 x 98 cm, framed
Provenance:
said to have been in the Collection of the Vizconde de Mamblás and then the Marqués de Salamanca;
Private collection, Spain, since the beginning of the 20th Century

Literature:
probably J. Thuillier, Sébastien Bourdon, 1616–1671, catalogue critique et chronologique de l’oeuvre complet, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2000, p. 295, under cat. no. 149, version no. 2, copie no. 3 (‘une copie conserve dans une collection particulière à Madrid, vers 1995’)
Specialist: Mark MacDonnell