"Portrait of Don Manuel de Fonseca y Zúñiga, IV Count of Monterrey". Standing, dressed in black with the cross of the Santiago Order, a gold chain and a capon key on his belt, a memorial in his right hand and a hat in his left.
This painting belonged, along with that of his wife, Dª Leonor de Guzmán, sister of the Count Duke of Olivares, to the Collection of Diego Mejía, Marqués de Leganés, where it was entered in the inventory of 1637-1642, with the number 767 that can still be seen below on the left. The painting has been collected since ancient times in the works of López Navío, A. Mayer, J. López Rey and more recently in the doctoral theses of JJ Pérez Preciado and A. Rivas Albadalejo.
Don Manuel de Fonseca y Zúñiga, VI Count Monterrey, was a prominent member of the court of Felipe IV. Patron and art collector, he held, among other dignities, that of Ambassador of Spain in Rome (1628-1631), helping Velázquez during his first trip to Italy, so that he could stay at the Villa Medici first and then welcoming him at the Spanish Embassy during the illness he suffered in the summer of 1630. In gratitude for these services, Velázquez painted two separate portraits of the Count and Countess. This representation of the Count served as a model for the realization of later paintings and engravings (cf. Nicolás Perrey) during his subsequent commission as Viceroy of Naples.
Provenance:
Marqués de Leganés, 1642, num. 757; Marqués de Leganés 1655, Palace of San Bernardo, no. 757, Count Altamira 1726, Palace of San Bernardo, "Piece Game of Tricks" a, 767; 1963, Barcelona José Graells collection. 192 x 102cm
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