On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P00812
- Author
- El Greco (Spanish)
- Title
- The Licenciate Jerónimo de Cevallos
- Chronology
- 1613
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 64 cm x 54 cm x 2 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- COLECCION REAL
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
A portrait of Jerónimo de Cevallos
(Escalona 1562-1641), dressed in
black with a white ruff, on a dark
background.
Born in Escalona in 1562, he died
in 1641. Cevallos was a friend and
protector of the painter, as well
as a famous jurist and politician
in Toledo. A member of the
so-called Academy of the Count of
Mora, a discussion group attended
by important members of Toledo's
intellectual and literary circles,
he has been identified thanks to a
contemporaneous engraving by Pedro
Ángel that appears in Cevallo's
book, Tractatus de cognitione per
viam violentiae in causis
Ecclesiasticis.
The grasp of the sitter's
personality and the loose and
confident brushstrokes denote the
high quality of this work, which is
very similar to other portraits
painted by El Greco at the
beginning of the sixteenth
century.
This work comes from the country
home of the Duke of Arco in El
Pardo (Madrid).
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