Existing comment:
Henri-Charles Guérard (French, 1846–1897)
After Diego Velásquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)
Portrait du cardinal infant Don Fernando [Portrait of Cardinal Infante Don Fernando as a Hunter], 1888
Etching
Like his friend and contemporary Édouard Manet, Guérard held the seventeenth-century Spanish artist Diego Velásquez in high esteem. Here, Guérard, who was clearly capable of making faithful reproductive prints after artists' paintings, instead renders Velásquez's Portrait of Cardinal Infante Don Fernando (1632–33) in a free and interpretative manner. That Manet had taken a similar approach to Velásquez's work reflects Guérard's admiration not only for the Spanish master but also for his friend. |