Portrait of Íñigo Melchor Fernandez de Velasco

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*Portrait of Íñigo Melchor Fernandez de Velasco* (1658-1659) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Portrait of Íñigo Melchor Fernandez de Velasco is an oil on canvas by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, from 1658-1659. It is a portrait of Íñigo Melchor de Velasco, constable of Castille. It is also known as The Gentleman from Seville due to a court case in which it was involved during the 1980s.

The work was owned by Jane St. Maur Blanche Stanhope, Marchioness Conyngham (1833-1907). It was then owned by various art dealers, namely Adrian Lesser in London, then Percy Moore Turner in Paris and London, then Julius Böhler in Munich in 1913, then François Kleinberger in Paris the following year.^[1] It has been in the Louvre since 1985.

The Canson Affair

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Jacques-Louis-René Barou de la Lombardière de Canson, a descendant of the famous paper maker Canson, left it to his daughter Suzanne in 1958. Her death in September 1986 at a villa in La Garde, Var

References

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^ (in French) "Catalogue entry".

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Immaculate Conceptions	San Vicente (c. 1640–1650) La Colasal (1645–1655) Esquilache (1645–1655) El Escorial (1660–1665) Museo Soumaya (c. 1670) Aranjuez (c. 1675) Los Venerables (c. 1678) Walpole (c. 1680)
Other religious works	The Vision of Fray Lauterio (c. 1640) Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (1640–1645) Saint Francis of Assisi at Prayer (c. 1645–1650) The Angels' Kitchen (1646) The Flight into Egypt (1647–1650) Adoration of the Shepherds (Madrid; c. 1650) The Holy Family with a Little Bird (1650) Our Lady of the Rosary (1650–1655) Saint Roderick (c. 1650–1655) Rebecca and Eleazar (1652) The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua (1656) The Good Shepherd (c. 1660) The Birth of the Virgin (1661) Christ after the Flagellation (Boston; c. 1665) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1665) The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Bernard (c. 1665) Mater Dolorosa (1665) The Patrician's Dream (1665) Saint Anthony with the Christ Child (1665–1666, 1668–1669) Liberation of Peter (1665–1667) Isaac Blessing Jacob (1665–1670) Saint Justa and Saint Rufina (c. 1666) Madonna and Child of the Napkin (c. 1666) Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda (c. 1667–1670) Christ on the Cross (San Diego; c. 1667–1670) The Return of the Prodigal Son (c. 1667–1670) The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (Edinburgh; c. 1667–1682) Adoration of the Shepherds (London; c. 1668) Saint Thomas of Villanova Giving Alms (c. 1668) Saint Francis Embracing Christ on the Cross (1668–1669) Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1668–1670) The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (Seville; c. 1669–1674) Moses at the Rock of Horeb (c. 1669–1674) Christ after the Flagellation (Champaign; c. 1670) Abraham and the Three Angels (c. 1670–1674) The Christ Child and the Infant John the Baptist with a Shell (1670–1675) Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Curing the Sick (1672) Saint John of God Carrying a Sick Man (1672) Ecce Homo (c. 1672–1678) Christ on the Cross (New York; c. 1675) The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew (1675–1682) Christ on the Cross (Madrid; c. 1675) Saint Thomas of Villanova Healing a Lame Man (c. 1675) The Conversion of Saint Paul (c. 1675–1680) Christ on the Cross (Madrid; c. 1677) The Christ Child Distributing Bread to Pilgrims (1678) The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities (c. 1680)
Genre works	The Young Beggar (1645–1650) Children Eating Grapes and a Melon (1645–1650) Four Figures on a Step (c. 1655–1660) Boy with a Dog (1655–1660) Two Women at a Window (1665–1675) The Little Fruitseller (c. 1670–1675) Children Eating a Tart (1670–1675) The Flower Girl (c. 1675–1680)
Portraits	Portrait of Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga (c. 1653) Portrait of Íñigo Melchor Fernandez de Velasco (1658–1659)
Related	Baroque painting Casa de Murillo