Diego Velazquez

Don Luis de Góngora y Argote



Diego Velazquez - Don Luis de Góngora y Argote



Diego Velazquez
Don Luis de Góngora y Argote
1622
50.2 x 40.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund


Literature

López-Rey 496
Checa 18


Exhibitions

2015 Velázquez, Nr. 38

Provenance

1622, painted in Madrid, probably at the request of Francisco Pacheco (born 1564 - died 1644)
1660, probably with the artist
by 1677, Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán (born 1629 - died 1687), 7th Marqués del Carpio, Madrid
1690s, sold from the Carpio estate to Nicolás Nepata
Marqués Benigno de la Vega Inclán y Flaquer (born 1858 - died 1942), Madrid
private collection, Paris
by 1931, Tomas Harris Ltd., London
1932, sold by Harris to the MFA, accession date 3 March 1932

External links

Museum of Fine Arts Accession number 32.79

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