id: 141549
accession number: 1965.15
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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
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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
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culture: Spain, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Spanish before 1800
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660) - artist
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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.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1965
opening date: 1965-10-27T04:00:00
Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (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: Velazquez
opening date: 1989-10-03T04:00:00
Velazquez. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 3, 1989-January 7, 1990); Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain (January 29-March 30, 1990).
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, New York, NY (organizer) (February 25-June 29, 2003).
title: The Palace of the Planet King. Philip IV and the Buen Retiro
opening date: 2005-07-05T00:00:00
The Palace of the Planet King. Philip IV and the Buen Retiro. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (July 5-November 27, 2005).
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, New York, NY (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, St. Petersburg, FL (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, Dallas, TX (organizer) (September 16, 2012-January 13, 2013).
title: Velázquez
opening date: 2015-03-25T00:00:00
Velázquez. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 25-July 13, 2015).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exposition Retrospective. Palais des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France (1866).', 'opening_date': None}
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PROVENANCE
Royal Collections (Palacio del Beun Retiro, Madrid)
date: ca. 1631-32 - until at least 1808
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Private Collection (Great Britain)
date: - possibly 1863
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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: by 1867 - 1872
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Maurice Cottier (died 1881), (Paris, France, and Château Cangé, Touraine.
date: by 1881
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Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925) London, England, and Brighton, England, sold to Herbert Frederick Cook, 1915.
date: by 1906 - 1915
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Herbert Frederick Cook, later 3rd Baronet, 1868-1939 (Richmond, England), by inheritance to Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 1939.
date: 1915-1939
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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: 1939-
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1965-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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Curtis, Charles Boyd. Velazquez and Murillo; A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Works of Don Diego De Silva Velazquez and Bartolomé Estéban Murillo. London, United Kingdom: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883.
page number: Reproduced: p. 33, no. 75
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Justi, Carl, and A. H. Keane. Diego Velazquez and His Times. London, United Kingdom: H. Grevel & Co, 1889.
page number: Reproduced: p.438
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Lafond, Paul. "Des Portraits de fous, de nains et de phenomenes." La Revue de l'Art Ancien et Modern XI (January-June, 1902): 226-227.
page number: Mentioned: 226-227
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Brockwell, Maurice W. "The Cook Collection, Part III." Connoisseur L (January, 1918): 8.
page number: Reproduced: p. 8. pl. XXIII
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Moreno Villa, José. Velázquez. Madrid, Spain: Editorial "Saturnino Calleja", 1920.
page number: Mentioned: p. 38-40; Reproduced: p. 24
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Brock, Maurice W. "Calabacillas, the Buffoon." Connoisseur LIX (February, 1921): 116-121.
page number: Mentioned: p. 116, 119-120; Reproduced: 121
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Mayer, August L. Diego Velázquez. Berlin, Germany: Propyläen-Verlag, 1924.
page number: Mentioned: p. 74-75
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Salazar, Juan Allende. Velazquez; des meisters gemälde in 275 abbildungen. Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche verlags-anstalt, 1925.
page number: Reproduced: p. 30; Mentioned: p. 274
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Cook, Francis, Maurice W. Brockwell, and Herbert Frederick Cook. Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart. London, United Kingdom: W. Heinemann, 1932.
page number: Reproduced: p. 59, no. 500, pl. XX
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Justi, Carl. Diego Velazquez und sein Jahrhundert. Zürich, Switzerland: Phaidon-verlag, 1933.
page number: Reproduced: p. 705, pl. 25
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Mayer, August L. Velazquez; A Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures and Drawings. London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, Limited, 1936.
page number: Reproduced: p. 104, no. 445, pl. 149
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Mayer, August L. Velazquez. New York New York.: French Library of Fine Arts, French and European Publications, Inc, 1939.
page number: reproduced: p. 14
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Ferrari, , Enrique Lafuente, J. R. Carey, and Neil MacLaren. Velazquez. London, United Kingdom, : G. Allen & Unwin ltd, The Phaidon press, 1943.
page number: Reproduced: p. 19, pl. 32
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Trapier, Elizabeth du Gué. Velazquez. New York, New York: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1948.
page number: Reproduced: p. 115
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Justi, Carl, and Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño. Velázquez y su siglo. Madrid, Spain: Espasa-Calpe, 1953.
page number: Mentioned: p. 704-706; Reproduced: fig. 193
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Ortega y Gasset, José, Alfred E. Herzer, F. J. Sánchez Cantón, and C. David Ley. Velazquez. New York, New York: Random House, 1953.
page number: Reproduced: no. 67
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Pantorba, Bernardino de. La vida y la obra de Velázquez; estudio biográfico y crítico. Madrid, Spain: Compañía Bibliográfica Espanñola, 1955.
page number: Mentioned: p. 92-93; Reproduced: p. 141, no. 32
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López-Rey, José. Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Oeuvre. London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1963.
page number: Mentioned: p. 52, 57; Reproduced: p. 264, no. 423, pl. 49
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Museo del Prado. Museo del Prado: catálogo de las pinturas. Madrid, Spain: El Museo, 1963.
page number: Reproduced: p. 744, no. 1250
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Camón Aznar, José. Velázquez. Madrid, Spain: Espasa-Calpe, 1964.
page number: Reproduced: p. 611, 1004; vol. II
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"Year in Review 1965." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LII, no. 10 (November, 1965).
page number: Reproduced: cover
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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
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Domínguez Ortiz, Antonio, Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, and Julián Gállego. Velázquez. New York, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989.
page number: Reproduced: p. 20
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Garín Llombart, Felipe Vicente, and Salvador Salort Pons. Velázquez. Milano, Italy: Electa, 2001.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 196-199
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Tinterow, Gary, Geneviève Lacambre, and Deborah L. Roldán. Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. New York, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p. 451, fig. 10.49
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Brown, Jonathan, and J. H. Elliott. A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003.
page number: Reperoduced: p. 141, fig. 94
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Museo del Prado, and Andrés Ubeda de los Cobos. Paintings for the Planet King: Philip IV and the Buen Retiro Palace. Madrid, Spain: Museo Nacional del Prado in association with Paul Holberton Pub, 2005.
page number: Mentioned: p. 88; Reproduced: p. 89, no. 8
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Smee, Sebastian. Lucian Freud, 1996-2005. London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape, 2005.
page number: Mentioned: p. 13-14; Reproduced: p. 28
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Iacono, Margaret. Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, New York: The Frick Collection, 2006.
page number: Mentioned: p. 44-47; Reproduced: no. 8
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Jeffett, William, and Suzanne L. Stratton. Dalí and the Spanish Baroque. St. Petersburg, Florida: Salvador Dalí Museum, 2007.
page number: Mentioned: p. 92-92; fig. 64
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Lévy, Jean-Marc. Médecins et malades dans la peinture européenne du XVIIe siècle. Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 2008.
page number: Mentioned: p. 154-156, vol. I; p. 7, 132-133, vol. II; Reproduced: fig. 69
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Checa Cremades, Fernando. Velazquez, the complete paintings. Antwerp, Belgium: Ludion, 2008.
page number: Reproduced: p. 100, fig. 28
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Hirshler, Erica E., and John Singer Sargent. Sargent's Daughters: The Biography of a Painting. Boston, Massachusetts: MFA Publications, 2009.
page number: Reproduced: p. 19
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Condo, George. "Feature." Apollo 18 (October 2011): 70-74.
page number: Reproduced: p. 71, fig. 5
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Portús Pérez, Javier. Diego Velázquez: the early court portraits. Dallas, Texas: The Meadows Museum, 2012.
page number: Mentioned: p. 94-96; Reproduced: no. 4
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Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012.
page number: Mentioned: p. 190-191
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López-Rey, José, Odile Delenda and Benedikt Taschen. Velázquez: The Complete Works. Köln: Taschen, 2014.
page number: Reproduced & Mentined: pp. 80-81, 98-99, 345-346, fig. 36
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 183
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Kientz, Guillaume. Velázquez. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux -- Grand Palais: Musée du Louvre, 2015.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 240-241, no. 67
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Roglán, Mark A. Spanish Art in America. [Madrid, Spain: Ediciones El Viso, 2016.
page number: Reproduced: p. 80
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Pavans, Jean. Le musée intérieur de Henry James. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2016.
page number: Mentioned: p. 100, 183; Reproduced p. xxx
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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
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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
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Roberts, Lynn. "Style Snapshot." Picture Framing Magazine 29, no. 6 (June 2018).
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 46
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D. Aureliano de Beruete y Moret. "Exhibition of Ancient and Spanish Paintings at the Royal Academy." Connoisseur LVIII (December, 1920):188.
page number: Reproduced: p. 188
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López-Rey, José, Diego Velázquez, Odile Delenda, and Benedikt Taschen. Velázquez: The Complete Works. 2020, 99, 345-346.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 99, 345; Mentioned: pp. 345-346.
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García Serrano, Federico, and Diego Velázquez. Velázquez en 30 claves. Barcelona : Larousse, 2022.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 119
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