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Follower of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
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Description
- Diego Velázquez
- portrait of a gentleman, bust length, wearing a black jacket and white ruff
- bears an old inscription on the reverse of the stretcher: Herzog Bernhard von Sachsen Weimar
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Christie's, 26 November 1965, lot 84 (as 'Italian School, circa 1620'), for £14,000.