The Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria is a 1638 painting by Anthony van Dyck depicting Henrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I of England. Charles I had previously commissioned van Dyck to produce a triple portrait of himself, which was sent to Italy so that Gian Lorenzo Bernini could create a sculpted bust. Following reception of the completed bust, Henrietta Maria commissioned Bernini to produce a bust of herself and subsequently asked van Dyck to create a comparable triple portrait for use in the same process, which was ultimately never fulfilled.
In the surviving version of the work, the left-facing profile and full-frontal view are held in the Royal Collection. The right-facing profile is generally identified—albeit not definitively—as the portrait of Henrietta Maria now in the collection of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
See also List of paintings by Anthony van Dyck Charles I in Three Positions Triple Portrait of Charles, Prince of Wales Triple Portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales
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.
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