Juan Mateos (courtier)
Juan Mateos | |
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Born | 1575 |
Died | 15 August 1643 | (aged 68)
Nationality | Kingdom of Spain |
Notable work | Origen y dignidad de la caça |
Spouse | María Marquart |
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Juan Mateos (c. 1575 – 15 August 1643) was a horseback hunter and the principal arbalist of Philip IV of Spain. In 1634, he authored Origen y dignidad de la caça (Origin and Dignity of Hunting), a hunting treatise dedicated to the Count-Duke of Olivares. In his dedication he said, "I write solely what I have done, and what I have seen; and what I have seen, do." (Spanish: yo eſcrivo ſolamente lo que he hecho, y lo que he viſto; y lo que he viſto hazer.)[1]
Background
He was the son of Gonzalo Mateos, senior arbalist to the Marquis of Villanueva del Fresno from 1601 to 1606, i.e., while the Spanish Royal Court was in Valladolid: 978 Mateos entered the service of Margaret of Austria as a crossbowman and hunter. Upon her death in 1611, he entered the service of her husband, Philip III, and later the service of their son Philip IV.
.[2]Mateos' likeness is known through a bust portrait engraved by Pedro Perete that appears on the front of Origen y dignidad de la caça, one of whose illustrations is signed by painter Francisco Collantes.[3]: 166 Based on that engraving, art historian Carl Justi identified Mateos as the model of an unfinished portrait of a gentleman cut below the waist painted by Velázquez around 1632 (Don Juan Mateos, in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister),[4]: 356 and, in the opinion of Enriqueta Harris, Mateos is one of the characters depicted with the Count-Duke of Olivares and Alonso Martínez de Espinar in Prince Baltasar Carlos in the Riding School.[4]: 364
He died in Madrid on 15 August 1643. Among the properties inventoried at his death were two full-length oil portraits, one of his wife María and the other of him, probably the Don Juan Mateos, though the name of the painter is not indicated; these were valued at 100 reales.[5]
References
- ^ "Origen y dignidad de la caça, "Al Exmo. Señor Conde Dvqve"" (in Spanish) – via Biblioteca Nacional de España.
- ^ Peris Barrio, Alejandro (2009). Los Mateos: una familia de grandes cazadores reales (in Spanish). Vol. LVII. pp. 977–988.
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ignored (help) - ^ Gallego, Antonio (1999). Historia del grabado en España (in Spanish). Ediciones Cátedra. ISBN 84-376-0209-2.
- ^ a b López Rey, José [in Spanish] (2014). Velázquez. Obra completa (in Spanish). Colonia, Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5014-7.
- ^ Barrio Moya, José Luis (1998). Aportaciones a la biografía de Juan Mateos, ballestero mayor de Felipe IV, retratado por Velázquez (in Spanish). Asociación Cultural.
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