JUAN PANTOJA DE LA CRUZ

JUAN PANTOJA DE LA CRUZ. 1553-1608 Portrait of Don Diego de Villamayor

Oil on canvas. 89 × 71 cm

Signed and dated, bottom right: Jues Pantoja de la+Faciebat 1605 (the last digit, having an old Arabic form, was incorrectly read as 9 up to 1963). Inscribed, top left: Didacus de Villamaiore; right: Aetatis snae 17 Anno 1605

Acquisitions 1814. Formerly in the Coesvelt collection (Amsterdam). In 1833-88 was housed in the Arsenal at Tsarskoye Selo (near St. Petersburg). Inv. No. 3518

JUAN PANTOJA DE LA CRUZ. 1553-1608 Portrait of Don Diego de Villamayor (fragment)