Portrait of a Spanish Girl (after Velasquez)

 

Henry Wolf

  1852 - 1916 (biography)

1909  

woodengraving 

8 3/16 x 6 3/16?" image 

pencil, lower right 

100 

pencil: “Sculpt.” 

exhibited at 1915 PPIE, #7452; PCQ 1911 

very fine ivory wove 

proof 

artist 

7091 

$450.00 

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 in San Francisco. The Wolf wood engravings we have were available for sale at the PPIE and many were the actual prints exhibited and have the label from the PPIE. The painting, "Portrait of a Young Girl" by Velasquez, was done between 1638-1644, and resides in the painting collection of the Hispanic Society of America Museum in New York. The identity of the young girl is unknown, though it is suspected that she might have been the artist's granddaughter.