Don Balthazar Carlos (after Velasquez) by Henry Wolf
Don Balthazar Carlos (after Velasquez)
Henry Wolf
Title
Don Balthazar Carlos (after Velasquez)
Artist
Henry Wolf
1852 - 1916 (biography)Year
1908
Technique
woodengraving
Image Size
8 1/4 x 6 1/2" image
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
ca. 100
Annotations
pencil: "Sculplt." under signature
Reference
exhibited at 1915 PPIE, #7443; PCB, keppel, 1908, p.31
Paper
very fine ivory wove
State
proof
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum (series)
Inventory ID
6859
Price
$400.00
Description
After a section of the oil painting Baltasar Carlos by Valezquez. Done around 1640, the original was a full-length rendering of Baltasar Charles, Prince of Austria, heir-apparent to the Spanish monarchy before his untimely death at age seventeen of smallpox. From infancy to death he was a popular subject for court artists, especially Valezquez and his students.
In 1915, the year before his death, the American wood engraver Henry Wolf won the Grand Prize for his printmaking at the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco. The Wolf prints we have were available for sale at the PPIE and many were the actual prints exhibited and have the label from the PPIE.