Lot 290 | Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Sevilla 1599
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Sevilla 1599 - 1660 Madrid), workshop of Portrait of Philip IV of Spain, oil on canvas, 60 x 47 cm, framed, (Wo) This painting is a variant of a lost work by Velazquez. Provenance: José Osorio y Silva, Duque de Sexto; the latter's heirs; D. Miguel Borondo Collection, Madrid; Apolinar Moreno Borondo Collection, Madrid; West-German private collection Literature: Bernardino de Pantorba, La Vida y e la Obra de Velazquez, catalogue raisonné, 1955, p. 218, No. 135. Exhibited: Greco, Velazquez, Goya, Spanische Malerei in deutschen Sammlungen, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemälde Alter Meister, 2005; p. 242, repr.; Budapest, 2006. Between 1605 and 1665 Spain saw a cultural heyday that was reflected in the art of Velazquez, Murillo, and Calderon. On the other hand, it was a period of political decline and of serious economic and social crisis. This painting was one of the earliest portraits, if not in fact the earliest, of Philip IV by Velazques, who painted the monarch repeatedly.
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