Original copper engraving by Bartolome Maura after the portrait of Don Fernando de Austria as a hunter painted by Velazquez. Lettered below: "Escuela Espanola. Museo nac.l - Cuadro n.o 278" and "Propiedad de la Calcog.a N.l".
Original copper engraving by Bartolome Maura after the portrait of Don Fernando de Austria as a hunter painted by Velazquez. Lettered below: "Escuela Espanola. Museo nac.l - Cuadro n.o 278" and "Propiedad de la Calcog.a N.l".
It belongs to the series of seven engravings that Bartolome Maura y Montaner (Palma de Mallorca, 1844 - Madrid, 1926) cut between 1869 and 1870 after paintings by Velazquez. The Calcografia Nacional acquired them in 1870 and, before putting them on sale, commissioned Juan Gangoiti to engrave the lettering.
Medium: Copper engraving
Artist / after: Diego Velazquez (painter)
Engraver: Bartolome Maura y Montaner (1844-1926)
Date: 1870
Source: Calcografia Nacional
Dimensions: 11.8 x 17 in (30 x 43.1 cm)
Condition: The impression is clean and of good quality, but the sheet has rust staining (foxing) scattered across the margins, above all in the upper half