Velasquez pinx. E.Lingée sculp.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Engraving. 520 x 340mm, 20½ x 13½". Crack in plate mark.
Although this portrait is proported to be of Hernán Cortés 1485-1547), the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico, this is apocryphal. Velasquez's original painting, now in the Prado, is titled "The Jester Known as Don Juan de Austria".
[Ref: 17866]  £120.00