Catalog of Portraits, 1909-1911, 1929 [page 14]

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parts of the canvas. Thus the surmise that Velasquez has in this instance copied a work by his son-in-law, explains itself without any difficulty. The suggestion probably originated with the King himself, from his desire to posses also by his favorite painter a portrait which was to preserve in his memory, the juvenile charms of his young wife, which charms, alas, she had lost after the birth of her first child.



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