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    		• Sargent, John Singer,
     
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    		• Velasquez, Diego,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Calabazas, Juan
     
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    		• State of Being -- Disabled
     
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    Buffoon Juan Calabazas, after Velazquez, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, painter.
    Velasquez, Diego, 1599-1660, painter. (copy after)
    Title: 
    Buffoon Juan Calabazas, after Velazquez, (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    Portrait of a Buffoon of Philip IV, (painting).
    Portrait of the Dwarf Calabazas, (painting).
    El Bobo (Idiot) di Coria (Velasquez), (painting).
    Idiot of Coria, (painting).
    Jester Calabazas, Copy after Velazquez, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1879.
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    42 x 32 1/2 in. (106.7 x 82.5 cm)
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Calabazas, Juan -- Full length
    State of Being -- Disabled -- Dwarf
    Object Type: 
    Copy
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Anonymous Collection, Paris, France
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Sargent, Emily, by 1908.
    Ormond, Francis, Mrs. (Violet Sargent), 1936.
    Pittman, Hugo, Mrs. (Reine Ormond), 1955.
    Christie's, London, England Sale (Oct. 27, 1961), lot 90.
    Nicholson, Peter,
    Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York Sale (Mar. 13-14, 1964), lot 276.
    Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York Sale 2318 (Dec. 17-18, 1964), lot 233.
    Acevedo, Alex, 1995.
    Alterman, Jim, Lambertville, New Jersey
    David David, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2002.
    Agnew's, London, England 2003.
    Remarks: 
    This painting was once mistakenly identified as Bobo di Cori. Juan Calabazas (d. 1639) was in the service of Philip IV from 1632 to 1639. The painting by Velazquez, of which this is a copy, is in the Prado Museum, Madrid.
    References: 
    Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 4, Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, no. 729.
    Illustration: 
    Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 4, Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, pg. 205.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 88570102
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