Don Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzmán

Carpo e Heliche 7th Marquis del
Olivares 5th Conde Duque de

Spanish, died 1687

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A woman and two children, all with pale skin and flushed cheeks, sit together in a landscape in this round painting. The woman takes up most of the composition as she sits with her right leg, to our left, tucked under her body. Her other leg, on our right, is bent so the foot rests on the ground, and that knee angles up and out to the side. She wears a rose-pink dress under a topaz-blue robe, and a finger between the pages of a closed book holds her place. Her brown hair is twisted away from her face. She has delicate features and her pink lips are closed. She looks and leans to our left around a nude young boy who half-sits and half-stands against her bent leg. The boy has blond hair and pudgy, toddler-like cheeks and body. The boy reaches his right hand, on our left, to grasp the tall, thin cross held by the second young boy, who sits on the ground next to the pair. This second boy has darker brown hair and wears a garment resembling animal fur. The boy kneels facing the woman and looks up at her and the blond boy. The trio sits on a flat, grassy area in front of a body of water painted light turquoise. Mountains in the deep distance are pale azure blue beneath a nearly clear blue sky.
Raphael, The Alba Madonna, c. 1510, oil on panel transferred to canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.24

The Alba Madonna

Raphael · c. 1510 · oil on panel transferred to canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.24

Shown from the chest up, a pale-skinned young man with dark hair and a brown mustache and goatee looks at us from the corners of his dark eyes in this vertical portrait painting. His body and face are angled to our left, and his left eyebrow, closer to us, is slightly cocked while other is low over his other eye. He has a straight nose, a square jaw, and his pink lips are closed. His short, brown hair lays flat against his head but curls around the ear we can see. He wears a pecan-brown vest over a black, long-sleeved shirt with a white, lace-edged collar at the neck. His garments blend into the peanut-brown background so the light falling from the upper left highlights his features and white collar.
Anonymous Artist, Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1650, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.82

Portrait of a Young Man

Anonymous Artist · c. 1650 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.82

Bibliography

1682

  • Redoutey, Giacomo Antonio. Inventario e descrittione delli mobili, suppellitili, massaritie, brozi, e robba, e dell'Antica e moderna Pittura e scultura dell'eccmo: Sigre: Don Gasparo de Haro et Guzman.... (drawn up in Rome, 1682).

1989

  • Christie, Manson, & Woods, Ltd. Important Old Master Pictures. London, 8 December 1989, lot 100.