LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

64.57 in. (164.00 cm.) (height) by 43.90 in. (111.50 cm.) (width)

Literature:

Probably G. N. de Azara, Obras de D. Antonio Rafael Mengs, Primer Pintor de Camera del Rey, Madrid 1780, p. 72;; Possibly G. L. Bianconi, Elogio storico del Cavaliere Anton Raffaele mengs scritto dal Consigler Bianconi con un catalogo in Fine delle Opere da esso fatte, Milan 1780, cat. no. 91;; Possibly J. P. Doray de Longrais, Oeuvres de Mengs, Regensburg 1782, p. 32;; Possibly H. Jansen, Oeuvres complètes d'Anthoine Raphael Mengs, Paris 1786, vol. I, pp. 61–62;; Possibly C. F. Prange, Des Ritters Anton Taphael mengs ersten Mahlers Karl III König in Spanien hinterlassne Werke, Halle 1786, vol. I, pp. 94–95;; Possibly G.N. de Azara and C. Fea, Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs, primo pittore del Re cattolico Carlo III, Rome 1787, pp. 43, 45;; Possibly A. Ponz, Viaje fuera de España, vol. XIV, Madrid 1788, p. 48;; Possibly D. Honisch, Anton Raphael Mengs und die Bildform des Frühklassisizmus, Recklinhuasen 1965, p. 135, cat. no. 343;; S. Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs 1725–1779, Munich 1999, vol. I, p. 129, cat. no. 82;; J. Jordán, 'Sobra la lista de las pinturas de Mengs, existentes, o hechas en España', Bolètin Museo del Prado, vol. 18, no. 36, 2000, p. 75.

Provenance:

Probably the painting described by Don José Nicolas de Azara in 1800 as being commisisoned by Don Diego Sarmiento de Mendoza, XIII Conde de Ribadavia, de Castrogeriz y de Villazopeque (1715–76);; Thence by descent to Don Joaquín María Gayoso de los Cobos y Bermudez de Castro, XV Conde de Ribadavia y XII Marqués de Camarasa (1778–1849);; Thence by marriage and inheritance to; Don Andrés Avelino de Arteaga y Silva Carvajal y Téllez Girón, XVI Duque del Infantado (1833–1915);; Don Joaquín de Arteaga y Echagüe Silva y Méndez de Vigo XVII Duque del Infantado y Marqués de Santillana y de Ariza (1870–1947) (his collection labels affixed to the reverse);; Thence by descent to his daughter Doña Teresa de Jesús de Arteaga y Falguera, XII Marquesa de la Eliseda and Condesa de los Andes (1909–62);; Thence by direct descent to the present owner.