A Man in 17th-Century Spanish Costume

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An unidentified man wearing fine seventeenth-century Spanish costume stands in a roughly sketched interior. His wealth is emphasised by the silver embroidery on his jacket, the fanciful slashed sleeves and the broad-brimmed hat lined with white feathers. He rests his arm on a chair and looks out at us. Underneath the thick curtain beside him it is just possible to make out the outlines of flowers. These belong to an earlier painting -- a still life -- and indicate that the artist of the painting reused an old canvas, probably dating from the seventeenth or eighteenth century.This is a nineteenth-century imitation attributed to León y Escosura of a seventeenth-century painting. It is based on a life-size picture of a dwarf in the manner of Velázquez which is in the Prado, Madrid.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

A Man in 17th-Century Spanish Costume

Date

1850-90

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 92.7 x W 69.9 cm

Accession number

NG1308

Acquisition method

Presented by Charles Henry Crompton-Roberts, 1890

Work type

Painting

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