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The work is a preparatory painting for the face of Philip III executed by Velázquez in relation to his composition The Expulsion of the Moriscos, executed in 1627 but destroyed by the fire in the Real Alcázar in Madrid in 1734 and only known from written descriptions as no copy of it has survived.
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its representation of Velázquez as a royal portraitist, given that it is a work of outstanding quality and previously unpublished in the scholarly literature.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
