Juan de Alfaro y Gámez (Córdoba 1643-Madrid 1680) Portrait... Lot 43

Juan de Alfaro y Gámez (Córdoba 1643-Madrid 1680) Portrait of Doña Maria Josefa Diaz de Morales y Córdoba Canvas Inscription at the bottom with the model name: LA Sª Dª JOSEPHA DIAZ DE MORALEs I CORDOVA Collector's mark on the reverse Portrait of Doña Maria Josefa Diaz de Morales y Córdoba Cloth Inscription at the bottom with the model name: LA Sª Dª JOSEPHA DIAZ DE MORALEs I CORDOVA. Collector's mark on the reverse 194 x 108,5 cm - 76,4 x 42,7 in. PROVENANCE Commissioned by Don Juan Francisco Díaz de Morales, Henestrosa y Muñíz de Godoy, for his house in Calle Muñíces in Córdoba; Díaz de Morales family. Fuenteovejuna (Córdoba); Don Antonio Gutiérrez de los Ríos in the 19th century according to a label on the frame); Collection Don Joaquín Payá, Madrid, ca. 1930. EXHIBITION Carreño, Rizi, Herrera y la Pintura Madrileña de su tiempo (1650-1700), Madrid, Museo del Prado, January-March 1986, nº 116. BIBLIOGRAPHY A. Palomino, Vidas, edition Nina Ayala Mallory, Madrid, 1986, p. 263; C. de Viñaza, Adiciones al Diccionario Histórico de Ceán Bermúdez, Madrid, 1889-1894. Vol IV, pp. 76-78; R. A Marzolf, The life and work of Juan Carreño de Miranda (1614-1685), Michigan, Ann Arbor, University Microfilm International, 1961. pp. 88-89 and 170; J.-M. Palencia Cerezo, Obras cordobesas de Juan de Alfaro Gámez (1643-1680) ?, Goya Review, Madrid, 2001, nº283-284, pp. 246-247 Antonio del Castillo, Alfaro's first master in Córdoba, recommended him to Velázquez, whose Madrid studio he visited shortly before his death in 1660. Alfaro then studied the portraits of van Dyck in the Spanish royal collection. He introduced these new influences to his native Cordoba. According to Palomino, Don Juan Francisco Diaz de Morales commissioned Juan de Alfaro to paint four portraits of members of his family around 1675. The first two, which have not been located today, were probably his own and those of his wife Doña Isabel Morales, Godoy, Venegas and Aguayo; the next two are the one presented here and that of his sister Doña Isabel Diaz de Morales Muñíz de Godoy y Aguayo, which is preserved in the Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts