Portrait of a child

1822 - 1825. Oil on canvas.
On display elsewhere

This is a half-length, three-quarter profile portrait of an adolescent boy against a neutral background. He is looking at the viewer with a serious expression, while raising the index finger of his left hand as if pointing to something. He is wearing a dark suit and white shirt His hair in a short bob and a few strands falling over his forehead. According to B. Núñez Vernis (1996), he may be the artist’s eighth son, Dionisio, born in Madrid on 9 October 1807, and who would have been about 15 years old when he was portrayed.

Pérez Sánchez, A.E (com), El niño en el Museo del Prado, Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes, 1983, p.155

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Inventory number: P006616
Author: Zacarías González Velázquez
Title: Portrait of a child
Date: 1822 - 1825
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Width: 43 cm; Height: 53.9 cm
Provenance: Purchased from Margarita Fernández for the Museo de Arte Moderno, 1924; Museo de Arte Moderno, 1924–1971
Entry date: 1971

Bibliography +

Frances, J., Exposition D'Art Espagnol. 1828-1928, Bruxelles, 1928, pp. nº 2.

Pérez Sánchez, A.E (com), El niño en el Museo del Prado, Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 1983, pp. 155.

Espinós, Adela; Orihuela, Mercedes; Royo Villanova, Mercedes [et al.], El "Prado disperso". Cuadros depositados en La Coruña. Museo de Bellas Artes, Boletín del Museo del Prado, VIII (22), 1987, pp. 62.

Nuñez Vernis, Bertha, El pintor Zacarías González Velázquez (1763-1834), Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, 1996, pp. 433.

Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado: catálogo general, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2015, pp. 243.

Other inventories +

Registros-Inventarios Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, 1900-1936. Núm. 106 G.

Inscriptions +

CARISE? / - 2
Inscribed. Stretcher

Dn. ROMAN C
Inscribed in pen and ink. Frame, back, lower bar

Etiqueta. P-6616
Scrap of paper. Frame, back, upper bar

Etiqueta. SIT TRANSPORTES INTERNACIONALES / Nº 26/ TITULO. RETRATO DE NIÑO/ EXPOSICIÓN EL NIÑO EN EL MUSEO DEL PRADO / PRESTADOR: MUSEO DEL PRADO
Scrap of paper. Frame, back, upper bar

N S
Scrap of paper. Stretcher

643
Inscribed in blue. Front, lower right corner

Etiqueta. M.N.PRADO / M1595
Handwritten label. Frame, back, lower bar