Circle of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660)

A Youth picking Grapes at Night, a river Landscape beyond

Details
Circle of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660)
A Youth picking Grapes at Night, a river Landscape beyond
oil on canvas
28½ x 41¾in. (72.5 x 106cm.)
Provenance
Luís Guardamino, Madrid as Velázquez.
Leandro Alvear, Madrid, by 1892 as Velázquez.
E.F. Milliken, New York as Velázquez.
with Laurie & Co., London, 1902 as Velázquez.
with Knoedler & Co., London, 1906 as Velázquez.
with Scully and Co., London as Velázquez.
Francis Bartlett, Boston and by descent through his daughter, Caroline, to Herbert M. Sears, Boston; sale, Parke Bernet, New York, Oct. 17, 1942, lot 128 as Velázquez.
Literature
W. Gensel, Velázquez, Klassker der Kunst, 1908, pp. 175 and 185, illustrated p. 6 as Velázquez.
A. de Beruete, Velázquez, 1906, pp. 7-8, pl. 11.
J. Allende-Sálazar, Velázquez, in Klassiker des Kunst, 1925, pp. 6, 273 and 289 as Velázquez.
A.L. Mayer, Velázquez. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures and Drawings, 1936, p. 22, no. 96, pl. 47 (only known from a photograph) as Velázquez.
E. Lafuente, The Paintings and Drawings of Velázquez. Complete Edition, 1943, p. 34, no. C, pl. 7 as 'Attributed to Velázquez. About 1618'.
E. du Gué Trapier, Velázquez, 1948, pp. 74-6.
B. Pantorba, La vida y la obra de Velázquez, 1955.
M. Soria Varia Velazqueña, 1960, R. Longhi in ibid.
J. López-Rey, Velázquez. A Catalogue Raisonné of his Oeuvre, 1963, p. 152, no. 85, pl. 187 'from a photograph...the attribution to Velázquez appears plausible; the composition recalls his manner of 1617 or thereabouts'.
P.M. Bardi, L'opera completa di Velázquez, 1969, p. 87, no. 2, illustrated.
L. Konecny, Zeuxis in Prague: some Thoughts on Hans von Aachen, in the catalogue of the exhibition, Prag um 1600, 1988, p. 150, fig. 11 as Velázquez.
Exhibited
Madrid, Exposición Histórico-Europa, 1892-3.
London, New Gallery, Spanish Art, 1896.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings, Drawings and Prints from Private Collections in New England, June 10-Sept. 10, 1939, p. 88, no. 136, pl. LXVI as Velázquez.
New York, Brooklyn Museum, on loan, no. 3.63.683.
Jacksonville, FL, Cummer Gallery of Art, on loan as Velázquez.