Lot 75: Fray Juan Andrés Rizi de Guevara Madrid 1600-1681 Montecassino , Portrait of a benedictine monk, bust length

inscribed on the reverse: Pintado por el célebre/ Velazquez oil on canvas, in a Spanish carved parcel gilt frame

measurements note 51.5 by 40.3 cm.; 20 1/4 by 15 7/8 in.

Exposición Nacional de retratos , as Juan M..lla (according to a label on the reverse).

For the attribution, compare with the artist's Portrait of Fray Alonso de San Vitores in the Museo de Burgos (see D. Angulo Iñiguez & A.E. Pérez Sánchez, Historia de la Pintura Española, Escuela Madrileña del Segundo Tercio del Siglo XVII , Madrid 1983, pp. 307-08, no. 74, reproduced plates 300-01).