Fray Juan Andrés Rizi de Guevara Madrid 1600-1681 Montecassino

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Fray Juan Andrés Rizi de Guevara
Portrait of a benedictine monk, bust length
inscribed on the reverse: Pintado por el célebre/ Velazquez
oil on canvas, in a Spanish carved parcel gilt frame

Provenance

Believed to have been in the collection of the family of the present owners since at least the early 19th century.

Exhibited

Exposición Nacional de retratos, as Juan M..lla (according to a label on the reverse).

Catalogue Note

For the attribution, compare with the artist's Portrait of Fray Alonso de San Vitores in the Museo de Burgos (see D. Angulo Iñiguez & A.E. Pérez Sánchez, Historia de la Pintura Española, Escuela Madrileña del Segundo Tercio del Siglo XVII, Madrid 1983, pp. 307-08, no. 74, reproduced plates 300-01).