Portrait of Diego de Covarrubias

Portrait of Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva is a c.1600 oil on canvas painting by El Greco,[1] now in the El Greco Museum in Toledo.[2] It appears in Harold Wethey's catalogue raisonné of the artist's works as number 137 and in Tiziana Frati's as number 114;[3]

The artist arrived in Toledo in 1577, the year Diego de Covarrubias died, so the work cannot be from life[4] but is instead based on Sánchez Coello's 1574 portrait of him.[5] He may also be one of the figures in The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, in which case it may be a kind of posthumous tribute.[6]

It appears to be a pendent of Portrait of Antonio de Covarrubias (Wethey number 136) - in both works the only autograph section seems to be the head, with the rest being by his studio.[7] Both were probably in Pedro de Salazar y Mendoza's collection according to a 1629 inventory.[8] It was later in Toledo's provincial library.[9] Wethey also mentions a copy (X-163), formerly in Toledo Provincial Museum but now in an unknown location.[10]

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References

  1. ^ (in Spanish) "el Greco, claves de redacción". Fundéu RAE. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  2. ^ (in Spanish) Wethey. El Greco y su escuela. Vol. II. p. 102.
  3. ^ (in Spanish) Frati. La obra pictórica completa de El Greco. p. 111.
  4. ^ (in Spanish) Red digital de Colecciones de Museos de España (ed.). "Retrato de Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva". Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  5. ^ (in Spanish) Wethey. El Greco y su escuela. Vol. II. p. 102-103.
  6. ^ (in Spanish) Marañón. El Greco y Toledo. pp. 104–112.
  7. ^ (in Spanish) Wethey. El Greco y su escuela. Vol. II. pp. 103–104.
  8. ^ (in Spanish) Gudiol. Doménikos Theotokópoulos, el Greco (1541-1614). p. 112.
  9. ^ Wethey. El Greco y su escuela. Vol. II. p. 104.
  10. ^ (in Spanish) Wethey. El Greco y su escuela. Vol. II. p. 217.

Bibliography (in Spanish)

  • Cossío, Manuel Bartolomé (2016). El Greco de Cossío. Zaragoza: Lecturas hispánicas.
  • Frati, Tiziana (1970). La obra pictórica completa de El Greco. Barcelona-Milán: Noguer-Rizzoli.
  • Gudiol, José (1982). Doménikos Theotokópoulos, el Greco (1541-1614). Barcelona: Poligrafía.
  • Wethey, Harold Edwin (1968). El Greco y su escuela. Vol. II. Translated by Carlos Cid Priego. Madrid: Guadarrama.
  • Marañón, Gregorio (2014). El Greco y Toledo. RBA.
  • Marías, Fernando (2013). El Greco. Historia de un pintor extravagante. Nerea.
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