DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ
PORTRAIT OF DON SEBASTIÁN DE HUERTA, c. 1628-1629
oil on canvas
121 x 101 cm;
47 5/8 x 39 3/4 in.
47 5/8 x 39 3/4 in.
Provenance
Sebastián García Huerta (1576-1644), La Guardia, Toledo (commissioned from the artist; kept at the family residence);Thence by descent to the García de Huerta family, La Guardia until 1929;
Miguel B. Marcos de León, Madrid acquired from the above;
Thence by descent to his heirs until 2013;
Private collection, Madrid.
Exhibitions
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Velázquez, 28 October 2014 - 15 February 2015;Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Velázquez, 25 March - 13 July 2015.
Literature
A. L. Mayer, Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures and Drawings, London 1936, p. 103, pl. 192, no. 439 (as Juan de Fonseca y Figueroa).J. López-Rey & A. Mayer, Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Oeuvre, London 1963, p. 282, no. 469, pl. 402 (as Juan de Fonseca y Figueroa).
C. Garrido, “Velázquez y el Inquisidor,” Ars Magazine, no. 17, January-March 2013, pp. 56-68, figs. 1-12.
J. López-Rey and O. Delenda, Velázquez. L’oeuvre complete, Cologne 2014, p. 21.
G. Kientz, Velázquez. L’affrontement de la peinture, Paris 2015, p. 355. G. Kientz (ed.), Velázquez, exh. cat., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna / Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2014-15, Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais / Louvre Éditions, 2015, pp. 232 233, no. 63.
C. Garrido, Velázquez. El fluir expresivo de su pintura, Lleida 2022, pp. 152-173.