Diego Velazquez
Don Luis de Góngora y Argote
162250.2 x 40.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
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
Other works by Diego Velazquez
Female Figure (A Sibyl?)
c. 1648
c. 1648
Prince Baltasar Carlos with a Dwarf
1632
1632
Portrait of a Man
c. 1640-50
c. 1640-50
The Dwarf Don Diego de Acedo, "El Primo"
c. 1636-38
c. 1636-38
Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena
1638
1638