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| Title | Landscape with Figures | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Pollok House | |
| Artist | Spanish School Previously attributed to school of Velázquez, Diego (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Previously attributed to Mazo, Juan Bautista Martínez del (Spanish painter, 1612-1667) |
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| Date Earliest | probably about 1657 | |
| Date Latest | probably about 1657 | |
| Description | In front of a scrubby landscape sits a woman and further off, towards the right, we see a man and a woman and a possible third figure, also seated. The middle distance is filled with stunted shrubbery falling towards the left to reveal a strip of sky. The small painting is believed to be a sketch for figures for a view of King Phillip IV's palace Buen Retiro, outside Madrid, as painted by Diego Velázquez. | |
| Current Accession Number | PC.92 | |
| Subject | landscape; figure | |
| Measurements | 17.8 x 25.7 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Mrs Anne Maxwell Macdonald 1967. | |
| Provenance | Hon. General Meade, Consul-General at Madrid (not in the Gen. Meade sale catalogue); Sir William Stirling Maxwell, London; by descent to his son Sir John Stirling Maxwell; by descent to his daughter Mrs Anne Maxwell Macdonald. | |
| Publications | Curtis, C. B., Velazquez and Murillo: A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of Works of Don Diego de Silva Velazquez and Bartolomeo Esteban Murillo, New York, 1883, no. 64, p. 28; Justi, C., Diego Velazquez und sein Jahrhundert, Bonn, 1888, p. 281; Caw, J. L., Catalogue of Pictures at Pollok House, Glasgow, 1936, p. 32, no. 50, as Velázquez; Mayer, A. L., Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures and Drawings, London, 1936, no. 140; Lopez-Ray, J., Velazquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Oeuvre, London, 1963, no. 147, p. 171 and pl. 226, as not by Velázquez, probably by Mazo; The Stirling Maxwell Collection Pollok House, Corporation of Glasgow: Museum and Art Galleries Department, c.1967, p. 31, no. 92, as unknown, mid-seventeenth century, possibly by del Mazo; Asturias, M. A. and P. M. Bardi, L'opera completa di Velázquez, Milan, 1969, no. 120d, as 'opera' probably by J. B. del Mazo. | |
| Notes | This is one of a pair of such sketches, the other, Two Figures before a Grassy Bank, formerly in the collection of Lt. Colonnel William Stirling of Keir, exactly corresponds to a foreground figure group of the painting of the Fountain of Triton at Aranjuez, dated 1657, in the Prado, Madrid (no. 1213). Cat. Edinburgh, 1951: 'The extraordinary freshness of conception speaks rather for Velazquez.' |
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| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Dr Heiner Krellig | |