2-645-705 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Infante Don Baltasar Carlos', (Prince Balthasar Charles as a Hunter), 1635-1636, (c1934). King Phillip IV commissioned Velazquez to paint a series of portraits on the theme of the hunt. Prince Balthasar Charles is dressed in adequate clothing for the sport with a dark cloak with sleeves, wide jodhpurs, a grey embroidered blouse, a lace collar, knee-high boots, and a rifle of the appropriate size for a child. Oil on canvas. Held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. From Galerias De Europa: Museo Del Prado, by A. De Beruete y Moret & Augusto L. Mayer. [Editorial Labor, S.A., Barcelona, c1934]