In the inventory of velazquez's assets from 1660 there are two hitherto unidentified lots: "a painting of the archduke" and "the king our lord on a tall chestnut horse", these two paintings along with seven others decorated the room called in the inventory the vault, which was the main room of the house where the painter's rich library was also located. Sanchéz cantón in his a. E. A. 1943 article "how velazquez lived" says of this group of works that surely would have also been painted by the great artist and when trying to identify the archduke he mentions alberto de austria and leopoldo guillermo forgetting the same as lopez rey in his velazquez catalog of the most natural candidate due to contemporaneity and family closeness, don fernando of austria, who was also archduke since he was regent of flanders. The article reviews the inventories, rejects the attribution to rubens' workshop and concludes with the hypothesis that it was painted by velázquez himself, whose sympathy for the infante don fernando was manifest, destined for the hall of kingdoms. Object Type: painting. Date: 17th century. Medium: painting. Collection: Unidentified location.
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