111092

Portrait drawing

The Infante don Gonzalo de Borbón y Battenberg 1927

Head only, in semi-profile to the left, a shirt and a jacket just indicated

Graphite with white chalk highlights on buff paper, 49.5 x 34.3 cm (29 ½ x 13 ½ in.)

Inscribed lower left: Gonzalo [in the sitter’s hand]

Inscribed lower right: de László / madrid 1927., and duplicated underneath

Sitter’s Book II, f. 53: Gonzalo/ 13-IV-1927 / Madrid.- Palacio Real.

Studio Inventory, p. 151 (128): Don Gonzalo, son of the King of Spain. / Signed “Gonzalo”

Private Collection

This portrait drawing, inscribed with the signature of don Gonzalo, was probably done by de László at the same time as the portrait drawing of the sitter’s elder brother, don Jaime [110534], also autographed by the sitter. It is likely that the artist made both these portrait drawings as mementos of his stay at the Palacio Real with the Royal Spanish family in 1927. Thus they remained in his possession.

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [8014]

PROVENANCE:

In the possession of the artist on his death

EXHIBITED:

•The French Gallery, London, A Series of Portraits and Studies by Philip A. de László, M.V.O., June 1927, no. 40

SMdeL 2011