Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez
(Seville 1599-1660 Madrid)

Portrait of Philip IV of Spain
oil on canvas
22 by 18 in. (56 by 46 cm.)

Workshop of the artist. Circa 1653/6. Deriving from the portrait of Philip IV by Velazquez, now in the Prado, Madrid. Another version by Velazquez, considered later than that in the Prado, is in the collection of the National Gallery, London.

PROVENANCE:

Possibly, Francisco Jacinto de Salcedo, Madrid, 1664 (as identified in his will “Ten small pictures of the Kings, of three quarter yard square, with black and gold frame”)

Salzedo (Salcedo) Collection, Paris

Felix Wildenstein, New York

San Diego Museum of Art, donated by the above in 1929

EXHIBITED:

Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Center, 1942

San Diego, Fine Art Gallery, The Legacy of Spain, January 2-March 4, 1969 (as by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo)

LITERATURE:

R. Poland, “A Baker’s Dozen: Important Paintings in San Diego’s Gallery”, American Magazine Of Art, January 1930, p. 28 (as by Mazo)

J.G. Andrews, Catalogue of European Paintings, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1947, illus. p. 92 (as by Mazo)

Juan Antonio Gaya Nuno, La Pintura Española Fuera de Espana, 1958, no. 1731 (as attributed to Mazo)

Jose Lopez-Rey, Velazquez, 1963, p. 224, no. 290 (as Workshop)