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Portrait of a Doctor  1585

by El Greco

The figure represented in this painting is identified as a doctor on account of the ring on the thumb of his left hand. This could be Luis Mercado, physician to Philip II, or Rodrigo de la Fuente, a personal friend of El Greco’s and a very influential figure in Toledo at that time. The work is cited in the 1686 inventory of the Alcázar Palace of Madrid, where it remained u...
Size: 
96 x 82.3 cm
Medium: 
Oil on Canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons