Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 314

Exhibitions

2015 Velázquez, Nr. 72

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

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1937.1.80

Other works by Diego Velazquez

Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares
c. 1625-26

View of the Garden of the "Villa Medici" in Rome

Kitchen Scene with the Supper at Emmaus
c. 1618

The Jester Calabazas
c. 1630

Portrait of a Woman
c. 1625