A Velasquez two for the price of one
January 22 2018
Video: Sotheby's
Here's a Sotheby's video on a portrait partly by Velasquez in next week's New York Old Master sale. The head is all by Velasquez, but the rest was completed by another artist, Pietro Martire Neri. The catalogue entry is here.
When I was teaching a course on connoisseurship at the RA last month, we were lucky enough to spend some time with this picture. It was a great way to practice connoisseurship, seeing where Velasquez stopped, and where Neri began.
