MATIAS DE ARTEAGA Y ALFARO

(1633 / 1703)

MATIAS DE ARTEAGA Y ALFARO Villanueva de los In (1633) / Seville (1703) "Portrait of Ferdinand III, the Saint, King of Castile", 1672

Etching and burin on paper Inscription on the frame: "Vera effigies DIUI FERNDINANDI, III. Regis Castellæ & Legionis." and lower inscription: "Magni FERNANDI, veros in imagine vultus / Af picis, expreffit quos tibi docta manus. / Huius Alexandri faciem qui pinXIt Apellem. / Fors dedit, ast animum pingere nemo potest." Originally signed and dated: “Bartolome murillo pins. Mathias Arteaga sculpt. et xcud A.1672”. Arteaga's signature has been erased, causing a tear in that part of the paper. Also paper cut out and adhered to a cardboard support. Engraving belonging to the work “Feasts of the S. Metropolitan and Patriarchal Church of Seville, to the new cult of the Lord King S. Ferdinand the Third of Castile and Leon: granted to all the churches of Spain, by the Holiness of Our Blessed Father Clemente footprint: 28.2 x 18.2 cm