Circle of Diego Velázquez
Pope Innocent X
c. 165049 x 42 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 314
Provenance
Sir Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford (1676-1745), Houghton Hall, Norfolk
by inheritance to his son, Robert Walpole, 2nd earl of Orford (1700-1751), Houghton Hall
by inheritance to his son, George Walpole, 3rd earl of Orford (1730-1791), Houghton Hall
sold 1779, through Count Aleksei Semonovich Musin-Pushkin, Russian ambassador to England, to Catherine II, empress of Russia (1729-1796), Saint Petersburg
Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg, inv. no. 418
sold July 1930, as a painting by Velázquez, through Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, and M. Knoedler & Co., New York to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA
Other works by Diego Velazquez
A Horse
c. 1634
c. 1634
The jester Don Juan de Austia
c. 1643
c. 1643
Mary of Austria, Queen of Hungary
1630
1630
The Supper at Emmaus
1628-29
1628-29
Mother Jerónima de la Fuente
1620
1620