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A Knight of Alcántara or Calatrava, ca. 1650–55
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682)
Oil on canvas; Overall, with added strips, 77 x 43 3/4 in. (195.6 x 111.1 cm); original canvas 77 x 38 1/2 in. (195.6 x 97.8 cm)
Gift of Rudolf J. Heinemann, 1954 (54.190)
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Provenance/Ownership History
?unverified sale ["Zubieta" according to Angulo Iñiguez], London, June 12, 1874, as "Don Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio, friend and disciple of Murillo and knight of a military order," for £178.10 to Palmer; Julian Williams, Seville (about 1883) described by Curtis as "a full-length portrait of Villavicencio, about thirty-five years of age, with hooked nose, moustache, and long black hair, wearing a black dress with open sleeves, a hat in his hand, a sword at his side"; Francisco Merry y Colom Gaite y Osorio, 1st Conde de Benomar, London [d. 1899]; unverified sale, Christie's, London, July 6, 1899, for £210 to Lesser; [Lesser, London, 1899–1912; posthumous sale, Christie's, London, February 10, 1912, no. 18, as "Don Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio, in black dress with braided sleeves, and white stockings, standing, holding his glove and hat, and wearing the Riband and Order of Saint John of Jerusalem ([sic] our sitter wears the ribbon and order of the knights of Alcántara or Calatrava), 75 in. by 48 in." for £81.18.0 to Nicholson]; [(?A. L.) Nicholson, from 1912]; [Rudolf J. Heinemann, Munich, in 1927]; ?[Fleischmann, Munich, by 1928–at least 1930]; ?[F. Mont, New York, in 1950]; [Pinakos Inc. (Rudolf J. Heinemann), until 1954]
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