Pope Innocent X

Diego Velázquezc. 1650

Details

Title: Pope Innocent X
Creator: Circle of Diego Velázquez
Date Created: c. 1650
Physical Dimensions: overall: 49.2 x 41.3 cm (19 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.) framed: 78.4 x 69.5 cm (30 7/8 x 27 3/8 in.)
Provenance: Sir Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford [1676-1745], Houghton Hall, Norfolk; by inheritance to his son, Robert Walpole, 2nd earl of Orford [1700-1751], Houghton Hall; by inheritance to his son, George Walpole, 3rd earl of Orford [1730-1791], Houghton Hall; sold 1779, through Count Aleksei Semonovich Musin-Pushkin, Russian ambassador to England, to Catherine II, empress of Russia [1729-1796], Saint Petersburg; Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg, inv. no. 418; sold July 1930, as a painting by Velázquez, through (Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London; and M. Knoedler & Co., New York) to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.
Medium: oil on canvas

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