Paintings in the Collection of Henry Clay Frick, 1915 [page 147]

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MURILLO (1617 - 1682) PORTRAIT OF HIMSELF The painter is represented about fifty (?) years of age with long hair falling on both shoulders, slight mustache and chin tuft, close-filling black doublet with slashed sleeves and a golilla or narrow stiff linen collar. Bust, without hands, in an oval, as if painted on a block of marble standing on another block, which is inscribed (in another hand) 'Vera efigies Bartholomæi Stephani a Morillo Maximi pictoris Hispali Nati anno 1618, obiit anno 1682 Tertia die Mensis Aprilis.' " —Charles B. Curtis, Velasquez and Murillo, p. 295. From the collection of D. Bernardo Iriarte, Madrid. From the collection of D. Francisco de la Barrera Enguidanos. From the collection of Julian Williams, who sold it to King Louis Philippe. It was exhibited in the Spanish Gallery. Louvre, No. 182. After the death of Louis Philippe it was sold to John Nieuwenhuys, who sold it to Baron Sellière, Paris, who left it to his daughter, the Princess de Sagan. This famous portrait is one of the items in Murillo's will. It was left to his son, Don Gaspar Murillo. and is mentioned by Palomino as being in Don Gaspar's possession. Its identity is assured by the "golilla" or stiff linen collar, referred to by Palomino. Cean Bermudez (Carta 104) also refers to the portrait "with the golilla" as appearing among the finished pictures enumerated in Murillo's will. Stirling, in his "Annals," ii., 897-8, refers to "the picture which afterwards came into the possession of Don Bernardo Iriarte" as probably identical with that which, "sold by Don Julian Williams to the King of the French, is now one of the gems of the Louvre." 147

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