El caballero de la mano en el pecho

Gentleman with his Hand on his Chest.

El caballero de la mano en el pecho, variously translated into English as The Gentleman with His Hand at His Breast,^[1] Gentleman with his Hand on his Chest or The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest,^[2] is an oil painting by El Greco.

Painted in Toledo around 1580, and on display at the Museo del Prado,^[3] it is the most famous of a series of secular portraits of unknown gentlemen, all of them dressed in black and wearing white ruffs, against dark backgrounds.^[1]

Some authors suggest it may be a portrait of Juan de Silva y Ribera, 3rd Marquis of Montemayor and warden of the Alcazar of Toledo.^[3] The artist Rupert Shrive and the historian Alex Burghart have also argued that it may be a self portrait.^[4]

References

1 2 Carney, Jo Eldridge (2001) Renaissance and Reformation: 1500-1620: a Biographical Dictionary, p. 175. Greenwood Publishing Group At Google Books. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
↑ Scholz-Hänsel, Michael (2004) El Greco p. 52. Taschen
1 2 On-line gallery: The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest Museo del Prado. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
↑ Shrive, Rupert (18 February 2004). "Face to face with El Greco". The Times (UK). Retrieved 9 September 2014.

Works of El Greco

Art Posthumous fame

The Dormition of the Virgin El caballero de la mano en el pecho The Disrobing of Christ (El Espolio) The Burial of the Count of Orgaz View of Toledo Saint Peter and Saint Paul Saint Martin and the Beggar Opening of the Fifth Seal Portrait of a Doctor Portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi The Adoration of the Shepherds Laocoön Retrato de un caballero desconocido St. Francis in Prayer Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple Washington Minneapolis London Frick Madrid

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