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02-06-2026
Paul Pontius -Engraver- (Author of the original work: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)
Peter Paul Rubens - Inventor
Siegen, Westphalia (Germany), 1577 - Antwerp (Belgium), 1640 - Inventor

Allegorical Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares

1626. Taille douce: etching and engraving on laid paper.
Not on display

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Inventory number
G002289
Authors
Paul Pontius -Engraver- (Author of the original work: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez); Peter Paul Rubens -Inventor-
Title
Allegorical Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares
Date
1626
Technique
Taille douce: etching and engraving
Support
Laid paper
Dimension
Height: 615 mm; Width: 445 mm; Alto segundo soporte: 750 mm; Ancho segundo soporte: 540 mm
Provenance
Acquisition, 2000
Entry date
2000

Bibliography +

Corpus rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. Tomo XIX Portraits Vol.I, Arcade Press,, 1968, pp. [214], figs. 9 y 11; t. 19, vol. 1.

Hollstein, F.W.H., Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700:..., Koninklijke Van Poll, 1992, pp. 176, nº 82, vol. XVII.

Velázquez en blanco y negro, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 2000, pp. 23 y p. 211.

Obras adscritas al Museo Nacional del Prado en el año 2000, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XIX, 2001, pp. 204.

Allegorical Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares, c. 1625. En: Portús, J., Diego Velázquez. The early court portraits, Meadows Museum-SMU-MNP, Dallas, 2012, pp. 106, n. 13.

Matilla, J. M., Forms and Uses of Prints to Serve the Power of Philp IV's Spain: 1620-1635. En: Portús, J., Diego Velázquez. The early court portraits, Meadows Museum-SUM-MNP, Dallas, 2012, pp. 65-83.

Portús Pérez, Javier, Velázquez in Gray: Decorum and Representation, En: Diego Velázquez. The early court portraits, Meadows Museum-SMU-MNP, Dallas, 2012, pp. 17-35 [35, il. 13].

Rubens, Van Dyck y la Edad de Oro del grabado flamenco : [co..., Biblioteca Nacional de España,, 2015, pp. 66.

Vergara, Alejandro, 'P.P Rubens. Retrato de don Gaspar de Guzmán, conde-duque de Olivares (Musées Royaux de Beaux-Arts de Belgique)', En: Rubens pintor de bocetos, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2018, pp. 198-200 f.75.

Other inventories +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 2563.

Inscriptions +

Casp. Geuartus lud
Lettered in the plate. Front, Lower right area

P. P. Rubenius ornauit et Dedicauit L. M
Lettered in the plate. Front, lower area

EXCELLMUS. DOMNVS GASPAR GVSMAN COMES OLIVARIENSIS, DUX SANLUCARIENSIS DE ALPIZIN &c. VIRTUTE ET FAMA INCLYTUS // HESPERE, QVIS CÆLO LVCET FELICIOR IGNIS // PHILIPPI IV. MVNIFICENTIA. // G III C / F?E?I?/ A C G D D M M A H P P M I C P G L // Bætis OLIVIFERÆ debet cui serta CORONÆ, / Palladiâ clarus non semel arte Comes: / Sic gerit os, magno sic pectora fida Monarchæ / Sæcula cui nullum prisca dedêre parem. / Elucet vultu Probitas, frontique serenæ / Pondus adest: mixtà stat Grauitate Lepor: / Clausa nec vnius Prudentia finibus Orbis. / Publica quâ Regnis vindice nata Salus. / O Superi, longos fæcunda virescat in annos / August tosque beet mitis OLIVA Lares. / Quæ partis late Terrâque Marique triumphis / Pacificas toto spargat in Orbe comes. / Casp. Geuartus lud.// Cum Priuilegÿs. - Paul Pontius sculp. / Ex Archetypo Velasquez - P. P. Rubenius ornauit et Dedicauit L. M.
Lettered in the plate. Front, lower central area

Miucues [?]
Inscribed with black pencil. Lower central area, Front, Secondary support

Cum Priuilegÿs. - Paul Pontius sculp.
Lettered in the plate. Front, lower area

Ex Archetypo Velasquez
Lettered in the plate. Front, lower area

Exhibitions +

Rubens and the Flemish Baroque Artists. Collections of the Museo del Prado
Barcelona
29.05.2025 - 21.09.2025

Rubens y los artistas del Barroco flamenco. Colecciones del Museo del Prado
Barcelona
27.05.2025 - 21.09.2025

Rubens. Painter of Sketches
Madrid
10.04.2018 - 05.08.2018

The Prado at the Meadows. 2012
Dallas
16.09.2012 - 13.01.2013

Update date: 02-06-2026 | Registry created on 10-11-2015

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