Gaspar de Gusman, Count of Olivares, c. 1626

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper [proof before letters]

Dimensions

sheet: 60.3 × 43.6 cm (23 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 82, State undesc., proof before letters

Accession Number

2011.139.45

Artists / Makers

Paulus Pontius (artist) Flemish, 1603 - 1658

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (artist after) Flemish, 1577 - 1640

Diego Velázquez (artist after) Spanish, 1599 - 1660

Image Use

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Inscription

In dark brown ink at top: [HESPERE] QVIS [CAELO] LVCET [FELICIOR IGNIS] / CA[EL]O [LUCET] FELICIOR I[GNIS] (mostly illegible, second line crossed-out; corresponds with inscription from later state); In brown ink, on pedestal, bottom left: Velasques Pinxit.

Marks and Labels

Some diagonal hatching in brown ink, on pedestal at bottom.

Provenance

Professor Leo Steinberg, New York; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Steinberg, Leo, Estate of

Exhibition History

2017: Murillo: The Self-Portraits, The Frick Collection, New York, 2017.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 82, undesc. proof before letters