The addition of this work to the Museum’s collections as a long-term deposit will contribute to completing its representation of Velázquez as a royal portraitist, given that it is a work of outstanding quality and previously unpublished in the scholarly literature. As such, it will help to cast light on one of the key works of the artist’s early period at court.
Include essays griten by John Elliott, Jaime García-Máiquez, Mª Dolores Gayo, William B. Jordan and Javier Portús, Chief Curator of Spanish Painting (until 1700) of the Museo del Prado.
ISBN: 9788484803669