Prince Baltasar Carlos in the Riding School
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| Prince Baltasar Carlos in the Riding School | |
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| Spanish: Lección de equitación del príncipe Baltasar Carlos | |
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| Artist | Diego Velázquez |
| Year | circa 1636 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 144.2 cm × 97 cm (56.8 in × 38 in) |
| Location | National Gallery, London |
| Owner | Grosvenor Estate |
Prince Baltasar Carlos in the Riding School, Spanish: La lección de equitación del príncipe Baltasar Carlos, is a painting by Diego Velázquez, painted at the Palacio del Buen Retiro outside Madrid, probably in 1636.[1]: 272 There are two versions of the painting, one on loan to the National Gallery in London, the other in the Wallace Collection in the same city;[2]: 20 [3] the latter is sometimes attributed to the studio of Velázquez, sometimes to Velázquez himself.[3][1]: 272
The original version of the work was loaned to the National Gallery in London in 2007–2008.[2]: 20
The first documented mention of the later version is in a letter written in 1828 from Madrid by the Scottish artist David Wilkie, who described it as a "duplicate" of the painting in the possession of Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Earl Grosvenor.[1]: 266 In 1856 it was bought by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, at a sale of the effects of the poet Samuel Rogers, and so passed into the Wallace Collection.[3]
