M. Knoedler & Co., 11 March 1911

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PARIS 23 PLACE VENDÔME. LONDON 15 OLD BOND STREET. ESTABLISHED 1846. CABLE ADDRESSES: KNOEDLER. NEW YORK. PARIS. LONDON. .M. KNOEDLER & CO. SUCCESSORS TO GOUPIL & CO. CORNER 34TH STREET 355 FIFTH AVENUE Paintings, Water Colors, Etchings & Engravings Artistic Framing. Red Book 108 New York, March 11th, 1901 Sold to Mr. H.C. Frick 640 Fifth Ave 3/14/11 - Paid on % - $200,000 4/13/11 - Paid balance 270,000 1 Ptg. by Diego de Silva y Velasquez Portrait of Philip IV $475,000 Red Book 108 Painted by Fraga in 1644 in field marshal uniform for the Queen when Philip IV was 32 years of age. In 1748, after the death of Philip IV, this portrait went from the Royal Palace in Madrid to the ducal Palace of Parma taken by Don Philip the third son of Philip V. Taken from Parma in 1859, when the states were incorporated with the Kingdom of Italy, by the widow Duchess, mother of Duke Robert, to Wartegg Castle near Zurich. Later on Duke Robert removed it to Schwartzau Castle in Austria. He died in 1907 and the portrait went to his heir, Prince Elias de Bourbon. O.K.

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