The Queen Mary of Hungary, posible portrait painting by Velázquez for the Prague Court

A portrait of the Infanta María of Spain, Phillip IV’s sister and queen of Hungary and Bohemia is conserved in the Czech Republic belonging to the National Gallery of Prague. So far the picture has been known only for low-quality reproductions and attributed, therefore, to Velázquez’s workshop. Nevertheless an analysis to the natural one joint to the documents discovered about this queen, has permitted to us consider it, probably, as a work out of the direct brush of Diego Velázquez, Phillip IV’s court painter.