Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria

The Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria is a 1638 painting by Antony van Dyck showing Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I of England. Charles had previously commissioned van Dyck to produce a triple portrait of himself to send to Italy so that Bernini could produce a bust of him. When the bust arrived, the queen ordered a bust of herself by Bernini and commissioned van Dyck to produce a similar triple portrait. The left-facing profile and full-on view are in the Royal Collection, whilst the right-facing profile is probably the portrait of the queen now in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

Reconstruction of the portrait, showing the profile from Memphis on the left.

See also

• List of paintings by Anthony van Dyck

Bibliography

• Gian Pietro Bellori, Vite de' pittori, scultori e architecti moderni, Torino, Einaudi, 1976.
• Didier Bodart, Van Dyck, Prato, Giunti, 1997.
• Justus Müller Hofstede, Van Dyck, Milano, Rizzoli/Skira, 2004.