Full Record |
| Title |
Self-Portrait of the Artist |
| Collection |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Pollok House |
| Artist |
Attributed to Carducho, Vicente (Italian painter and author, born 1571-1576, died 1638, active in Spain) |
| Date Earliest |
1633 |
| Date Latest |
1638 |
| Description |
This half-figure portrait of a Spanish gentleman in black doublet with stiff collar seated, in characteristic pose, at a table on which lies a palette and brushes was engraved for the collector Sir William Stirling Maxwell's book Annals of the Artists of Spain. The sitter holds a quill pen in right hand, poised above an open book. The title line of this book, although nowadays not completely legible, refers to the painting treatise Diálogos de la pintura su defensa, origin, essencia, definicion, modos y diferencias (Dialogues on Painting) that he had published in 1633. |
| Current Accession Number |
PC.116 |
| Inscription |
front (on book, left side) 'D(P?] [...]; front (on book) 'PINTVRA' |
| Subject |
portrait (Vicente Carducho, or Vincencio Carduchi) |
| Measurements |
91.9 x 85 cm.0 cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Given by Mrs Anne Maxwell Macdonald 1967. |
| Provenance |
King Louis-Phillippe, Galerie Espagnole, Louvre, Paris, 1838-48; Louis-Philippe sale, Christie's, London, 1853, lot 44, bought by Sir William Stirling Maxwell for £32 (note by Sir William Stirling Maxwell: 'I had previously had engraved it for the Annals of the Artists of Spain'); by descent to his son Sir John Stirling Maxwell; by descent to his daughter Mrs Anne Maxwell Macdonald. |
| Principal Exhibitions |
Art Treasures, Manchester, 1857, cat. no. 47; Exhibition of Spanish Art, New Gallery, London, 1895-99, cat. no. 47; Spanish Old Masters, Grafton Galleries, London, 1913-14, cat. no. 1; The Golden Age of Spanish Art from El Greco to Murillo and Valdés Leal: Paintings and Drawings from British Collections, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1980, cat. no. 11; Flesh and Spirit: Velazquez and Painters in 17th Century Madrid, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, 1996. |
| Publications |
Stirling Maxwell, Sir W., Annals of the Artists of Spain, London, 1848, vol. 1, p. 147 (engraving); Caw, J. L., Catalogue of Pictures at Pollok House, Glasgow, 1936, p. 6, no. 6; Gaya Nuño, J. A., La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, no. 485, p. 125; The Stirling Maxwell Collection Pollok House, Corporation of Glasgow: Museum and Art Galleries Department, c.1967, p. 58, no. 116. |
| Rights Owner |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author |
Dr Heiner Krellig |
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