The Topers a Souvenir of Velazquez

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The Topers a Souvenir of Velazquez

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906)

Price

£950

Signed

Signed with initials and inscribed 'napoli museo'

Medium

Black chalk and watercolour with bodycolour

Dimensions

5 x 5 ¾ inches

Mounted

Indirectly, this is a souvenir of Velazquez's painting, los borrachos (the topers), painted in 1626-28. though Brabazon saw and copied the original, which is in the Prado, in Madrid, his drawing here, of the three heads to the right of Bacchus, was made from a very good pastel copy of Velazquez's painting in the Museo di Capodimonte, in Naples.

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