Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain

Inscriptions

Inscribed lower left: Andres Lopez (on chair)

Provenance

Arthur Meeker, Chicago [according to a notation on the Registrar’s record]. Eugene McVoy (died 1929), Chicago, by 1927 [lent to the Art Institute in 1927, as Sánchez Coello, receipt R3417]; by descent to his children Corinne McVoy Gorham, Marie Celeste McVoy Kohler (later McFadden), Jean Dorothy McVoy Conger and Eugene J. McVoy Jr.; given by them to the Art Institute, 1942.

Publications

Chris Brooks and Charles Pietraszewski, "What's in a Frame?" in Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago, James Rondeau, ed. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 146–48, figs. 1–2.

Quick Overview

Artist: Andrés López Polanco (Spanish, active 1608, died 1641)
Date: c. 1610
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 210.6 × 109.3 cm (82 7/8 × 43 in.); Framed: 230.6 × 138.5 × 13.4 cm (90 3/4 × 54 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on canvas
Style: 17th Century
Place: Spain
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Sydney Gorham and Mrs. Walter Kohler, Jr.;Mrs. James Conger, Eugene McVoy in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McVoy
Accession no.: 1941.975

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.