LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

21.30 in. (54.10 cm.) (height) by 16.93 in. (43.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Grafton Galleries,. Exhibition of Spanish Old Masters , October 1913 - January 1914, no. 60 (as a. Portrait of Don Fernando of Habsburg), lent by don José Muñoz, London

Literature:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.O. Havemeyer Collection: Catalogue of paintings, prints, sculpture and objects of art , New York 1931, p. 500 (as Attributed to Velazquez);. B. de Pantorba,. La vida y obra de Velazquez: Estudio biografico y crítico, . . Compañía Bibliografica Española , Madrid 1955, p. 85;. J. López-Rey, . A Catalogue Raisonné of his Oeuvre, with an Introductory Study, . London 1963, p. 207, cat. no. 233, reproduced pl. 251;. A. Cooney. et al .,. Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection , New York 1993, pp. 281 and 380, cat. no. 497, reproduced;. J.L. Colomer, 'Competing for a Velazquez: New York Collectors after the Spanish Master', in. Collecting Spanish Art: Spain's Golden Age and America's Gilded Age, Madrid and New York 2012, p. 266, note 39

Provenance:

Juan de Muñoz de Ortiz, Valencia;. His sale, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 12 December 1911, lot 83 (where unsold or withdrawn);. Acquired directly from the Muñoz de Ortiz family by Mrs Henry O. Havemeyer (d. 1929),. circa 1923-24;. Her posthumous sale, New York, American Art Association, 10 April 1930, lot 96 (as Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez), where purchased for $6100 by Maurice J. Rougeron for. J.M. Hardy;. Private collection, London, by 1930;. Private collection, Spain, from 1999