Could I have an original van Dyck painting?
My parents have had this graphite drawing in their bedroom for ever. It is about 6″x11″ in a wooden frame that says “baby stuart”. It pictures a baby girl with a bisque bonnet. Today I felt like looking at it more carefully and I found that someone called “Milagros de la Fuente” wrote on the back of the frame in 1932 in Bilbao, Spain, and then in 1952 she wrote again, this time in Buenos Aires, which is where my parents bought it. I am now wondering if this might be an original Sir van Dyck painting. If anybody is an art expert I would like to email him a copy of the picture and let him see it for himself. (sorry if my english is not that good, I’m from Argentina)
http://cgi.ebay.com/BABY-STUART-BY-VAN-DYCK-ANTIQUE-ART-PRINT_W0QQitemZ170409816062QQcmdZViewItemQQptZArt_Prints?hash=item27ad376ffe
The original “Baby Stuart” is a detail from a Van Dyck painting of a group portrait of the royal children in the Pinacoteca of Turin.
http://www.jacobite.ca/gazetteer/Turin/images/GalleriaSabauda_VanDyck.jpg
It’s possible that this is an original drawing, but it’s more likely to be a copy (or a print).
To be certain you should take the picture to a fine-art auctioneer for appraisal.
http://www.sothebys.com
http://www.christies.com
Octubre-Morado.avi
