![]() 189, "un retrato de mi Pe, con su quadro guarnecido" ).The question is complicated by the fact that the artist approached his sitters, many of whom he had knew personally, with considerable empathy and a searching interest in human character. A portrait of El Greco, perhaps by the artist himself but conceivably by his son Jorge Manuel, is listed in the 1621 inventory of the latter’s possession (no. Nonetheless, some scholars have continued to maintain the identification of the sitter with El Greco. In those examples, the figure bears some resemblance to the sitter here, but seems more virile, and has a white beard and hair. ![]() ![]() Lafond (1906) described the seemingly Romantic notion as at best a plausible hypothesis, and a number of more recent scholars (for example, Wethey 1962) have rejected the idea, mainly on the basis of comparisons with presumed self-portraits inserted by El Greco into several of his major religious pictures (see also Christiansen 2003). ![]() For over a century scholars have considered whether or not this sympathetic portrait of an old man is a self-portrait by El Greco. ![]()
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