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Gaspar de Guzmán, Count of Olivares

Paulus Pontius, Peter Paul Rubens, and others

Gaspar de Guzmán, Count of Olivares

1620-1630

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Gaspar de Guzmán, Count of Olivares

1620-1630

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 696 x 500 mm. (27 3/8 x 19 11/16 in.) Plate: 626 x 456 mm. (24 5/8 x 17 15/16 in.) Image: 611 x 441 mm. (24 1/16 x 17 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.232
After the oil sketch by Rubens (a copy after Velazquez with addition of allegorical border) in Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Inscribed: Recto: Above image in frame: "EXCELL.MVS DOMNVS GASPAR GUSMAN COMES OLIVARIENSIS, DVX SANLVCARIENSIS DE ALPIZIN &c. VIRTUTE ET FAMA INCLYTVS." Top of image, within image: "HESPERE, QVIS CÆLO INCET FELICIOR IGNIS?" Bottom of image on pedestal, within coat of arms: "PHILIPPI IV. MVNIFICENTIA." Bottom of image on pedestal, left verse: "Bætis OLIVIFERÆ debet cui ferta CORONÆ, / Palladiâ clarus non semel arte Comes: / sic gerit os, magno sic pectora fida Monarchæ / Sæcula cui nullum prisca dedêre parem. / Elucet vultu Probitas, frontique serenæ / Pondus adest: mixtâ stat Grauitate Lepor:" Bottom of image on pedestal, right verse: "Clausa nec vnius Prudentia finibus Orbis, / Publica quâ Regnis vindice nata Salus. / O Superi, longos fæcunda virescat in annos, / Augustosque beet mitis OLIVA Lares, / Quæ partis late Terrâque Marique triumphis / Pacificas toto spargat in Orbe comas. / Casp. Geuartius lud." Under left angel's feet: "Cum Priuilegijs" Bottom left corner of pedestal: "Ex. Archetypo Velasquez" Bottom right corner of pedestal: "P.P. Rubenius ornavit et Dedicavit L.M." Under right angel's feet: "Paul. Pontius sculp." Below image, left corner of sheet, in graphite: "95" Below image, center, in graphite: "39."; "13.70."; "Gusman Gasparo" Below image, right corner of sheet, in graphite: "7981 [in diamond]"; "1188. / as-"

Markings: CM: Claghorn, Garrett

Artist

Paulus Pontius

1602–1657

Flemish, 1603-1658
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Artist

Peter Paul Rubens

1576–1639

Flemish, 1577-1640
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Artist

Diego Velázquez

1598–1659

Spanish, 1599-1660
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