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| A Knight of Alcántara or Calatrava |
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| Painting in frame: overall |
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| Painting in frame: corner |
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| Painting in frame: angled corner |
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| Profile drawing of frame. W 5 7/8 in. 15.1 cm (T. Newbery) |
Artist:Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (Spanish, Seville 1617–1682 Seville)
Date:ca. 1650–55
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:Overall, with added strips, 77 x 43 3/4 in. (195.6 x 111.1 cm); original canvas 77 x 38 1/2 in. (195.6 x 97.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Rudolf J. Heinemann, 1954
Accession Number:54.190
The sitter in this portrait wears a pendant with a symbol of a military order. In the nineteenth century the sitter was identified as Don Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio (1640–ca. 1695), whose passion for painting led him to study with both Murillo and Mattia Preti. Unfortunately, this identification is incorrect, though the portrait may show another member of the Villavicencio family.
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