Description:This is a Museum copy from original oil on canvas. Bears the stamp from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and dated April 5, 1935. It is from "Head of Man" by an unknown Spanish (Castilian) painter in the mid/late 17th century. This portrait was praised by Edgar Degas (1834Ð1917) and Mary Cassatt (1844Ð1926) as a work by Diego Vel‡zquez (1599Ð1660). Its broad, frank brushwork resonates with this artistÕs early paintings. By the 1930s, however, this attribution was doubted and today the painting is generally thought to be by someone in Vel‡zquezÕs circle or the workshop of the battle painter JosŽ Leonardo (1601Ð1652). Item is located in Farmington, Ct.

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