This life-size oil portrait of the Spanish king Philip IV's son was painted at the Prado Museum in 1895 after a painting by Diego Velazquez and exhibited in the Cincinnati Art Museum the following year. The prince was described as being fifteen years old at the time of the original sitting.

Study of ‘Prince D. Baltasar Carlos by Diego Velázquez’

Record ID: 595

Date: 1895

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 81 5/8 x 46 1/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: On frame plaque: J.H. SHARP

Owner: New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM

Accession Number: 2015.6

Provenance: The artist; present owner by gift, before 1932

Created concurrently with Peter Hassrick's 2018 Whitney West publication The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp, this online catalogue highlights more than 700 works by J.H. Sharp that are held in public collections.

Study of ‘Prince D. Baltasar Carlos by Diego Velázquez’

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