Portrait of don Sebastián de Huerta

Year c. 1628-1629

Medium oil on canvas

Dimensions 121 x 101 cm; 47 5/8 x 39 3/4 in.

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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.

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, ill. p. 28.
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.

Exhibitions / Fairs

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Velázquez, 28 October 2014 - 15 February 2015;
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Velázquez, 25 March - 13 July 2015.

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