Lot 204: AGUSTIN ESTEVE Y MARQUES

AGUSTIN ESTEVE Y MARQUES VALENCIA 1753 - CIRCA 1820 MADRID PORTRAIT OF DON DIEGO DE COLÓN, SEATED IN A STUDY INTERIOR inscribed on the letter: Al S. D./ Diego Colon oil on canvas, unlined 157.5 by 104.8 cm.; 62 by 41 1/4 in.

Paris, Galerie Sedelmeyer, 1913.

C. Mauclair, Les Arts, X, 1911, p. 25 reproduced (as by Goya);
A.L. Mayer, Francisco de Goya, London 1924, no. 238, reproduced fig. 98 (as "discutible de Goya");
M. Soria, Agustín Esteve y Marqués, Valencia 1957, p. 143, cat. no. 169, reproduced (as by Esteve).

In the collection of the Colón y Sarria Family until 1908 at which time bequeathed to Esteban Ruiz Mantilla;
With Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris 1913, no. 43 (as by Goya);
Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner, possibly from the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, in Madrid in the 1940s.