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- Reference number
- P00807
- Author
- El Greco (Spanish)
- Title
- The Doctor
- Chronology
- 1582-1585
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 96 cm x 82,3 cm x 2 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- COLECCION REAL
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
A portrait of an anonymous person
identified as a physician by the
ring on his left thumb. According
to some scholars, the sitter may be
Luis de Mercado, Felipe II's
chamber doctor; or Rodrigo de la
Fuente, a personal friend of El
Greco and a very influential person
in Toledo at that time.
This work is listed in the 1686
inventory of Madrid's Alcázar
Palace, where it remained until the
fire of 1734, when it was
transferred to the Buen Retiro
Palace, also in Madrid.
It is signed in lower-case greek
letters over the book.
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