id: 141549 accession number: 1965.15 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.15 updated: 2019-08-08 08:00:14.686000 Portrait of the Jester Calabazas, c. 1631–32. Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660). Oil on canvas; framed: 199.3 x 133.1 x 12.7 cm (78 7/16 x 52 3/8 x 5 in.); unframed: 175 x 106 cm (68 7/8 x 41 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1965.15 title: Portrait of the Jester Calabazas title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1631–32 creation date earliest: 1631 creation date latest: 1632 current location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Spain, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Spanish before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 199.3 x 133.1 x 12.7 cm (78 7/16 x 52 3/8 x 5 in.); Unframed: 175 x 106 cm (68 7/8 x 41 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1965 opening date: 1965-10-27T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965). title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: Velázquez, His Third Journey to Italy opening date: 2001-03-28T00:00:00 Velázquez, His Third Journey to Italy. Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (March 28-June 30, 2001). title: Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting opening date: 2003-02-25T00:00:00 Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (February 25-June 29, 2003). title: Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-11-08T00:00:00 Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Frick Collection (organizer) (November 8, 2006-January 28, 2007). title: Dalí and the Spanish Baroque opening date: 2007-02-02T00:00:00 Dalí and the Spanish Baroque. Salvador Dalí Museum (organizer) (February 2-June 24, 2007). title: Diego Velázquez: The Early Court Portraits opening date: 2012-09-16T00:00:00 Diego Velázquez: The Early Court Portraits. Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (September 16, 2012-January 13, 2013). title: Velázquez opening date: 2015-03-25T00:00:00 Velázquez. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France (March 25-July 13, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Paris, Palais des Champs-Elysees, 1866: "Exposition Retrospective"
CMA, 1965: "Year in Review 1965," CMA Bulletin LII (November, 1965), cat. no. 109, reproduced color cover.
CMA, 1983: "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual," no catalogue
New York, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989: "Velazquez," cat. no. 20, reproduced
Also to: Madrid: Museo del Prado
Rome, Italy: Palazzo Ruspoli (organizer: Fondazione Memmo) (3/18/01 - 6/30/01) "Velázquez, His Third Journey to Italy" exh. cat. pp 196-199.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2/25/2003 - 6/8/2003): "Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting", exh. cat. no. 71, p. 451, fig. 10.49, p. 303.
Museo del Prado, Madrid (7/5/2005 - 10/30/2005): "The Palace of the Planet King. Philip IV and the Buen Retrio"
The Frick Collection (November 8, 2006 - January 28, 2007): "Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art", exh. cat. no. 8, p. 44-47.
Salvador Dalí Musuem of Art (2/2/2007 - 6/24/2007): "Dalí and the Spanish Baroque", fig. 64, p. 92-93.
Meadoes Museum of Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas (9/16/2012 - 1/3/2013): "Diego Velázquez: The Early Court Portraits", cat. no. 4, p. 94-96.
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (3/25/2105 - 7/13/2015): "Velázquez" --- PROVENANCE Royal Collections, Madrid date: footnotes: citations: Duc de Persigny, Paris (sale: April 4, 1872, "Le Fou" 750 fr. [Dictionnaire de Ventes, p. 297]) date: footnotes: citations: Maurice Cottier (died 1881), Château Cangé (Touraine) date: footnotes: citations: Sir George Donaldson, London and Brighton, sold in 1915 date: footnotes: citations: Herbert Cook, later Sir Herbert Cook, Richmond date: footnotes: citations: Sir Francis Cook, Bart; since 1956 date: footnotes: citations: (sale: Christie's, London, March 19, 1965, cat. no. 104, illus., through Thomas Agnew & Sons, London) date: footnotes: citations: ca. 1631-32 - until at least 1808 Royal Collections (Palacio del Beun Retiro, Madrid) date: footnotes: citations: - possibly 1863 Private Collection (Great Britain) date: footnotes: citations: by 1867 - 1872 Jean-Gilbert-Victor Fialin, Duc de Persigny, 1808-1872 (Paris, France) (sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, April 4,1872, as "Le Fou," for 750 francs date: footnotes: citations: by 1881 Maurice Cottier (died 1881), (Paris, France, and Château Cangé, Touraine. date: footnotes: citations: by 1906 - 1915 Sir George Donaldson, 1845-1925 (London, England, and Brighton, England), sold to Herbert Frederick Cook, 1915. date: footnotes: citations: 1915 - 1939 Herbert Frederick Cook, later 3rd Baronet, 1868-1939 (Richmond, England), by inheritance to Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 1939. date: footnotes: citations: 1939 - Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th Baronet, 1907-1978 since 1956 (sold, Christie's, London, March 19, 1965, lot 104, through Thomas Agnew & Sons (London, England) to the Cleveland Museum of Art. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Calabazas, a jester in the court of King Philip IV of Spain, had physical and mental disabilities, a state that the artist emphasizes, rather than tries to hide. While the Spanish court prized and doted upon people with disabilities such as Calabazas, Velázquez transformed their depiction in portraiture. This startling work uses the format of the formal, full-length court portrait to present a type of person who was generally perceived as marginal at this point in history and profoundly humanizes him. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 130 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n154 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 130 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n154 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 149 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n169 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 510; Mentioned: p. 511-513 url: Kientz, Guillaume. Velázquez. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux -- Grand Palais: Musée du Louvre, 2015. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 240-241, no. 67 url: Roglán, Mark A. Spanish Art in America. [Madrid, Spain: Ediciones El Viso, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 80 url: Pavans, Jean. Le musée intérieur de Henry James. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2016. page number: Mentioned: p. 100, 183; Reproduced p. xxx url: Herdrich, Stephanie L. "Sargent, Art History, and the Critics." In John Singer Sargent . Per Hedstrom, editor, 107-122. Stockholm : Nationalmuseum, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 110 url: Montanari, Tomaso. Velázquez e il Ritratto Barocco.Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 242, pl. 142; p. 245, pl. 144 (detail); Mentioned: 241, 244 url: Roberts, Lynn. "Style Snapshot." Picture Framing Magazine 29, no. 6 (June 2018). page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 46 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.15/1965.15_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.15/1965.15_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.15/1965.15_full.tif