The Blind Sculptor

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Its origins are unknown - the first documentary reference to the work is a 1764 inventory of the collections at El Escorial, from which it moved to its present home at the Prado Museum in 1837. The work is traditionally known as The Blind Man of Gambazzo, since it was previously thought to have been a portrait of the blind sculptor Giovanni Gonnelli, but this theory has now been rejected as that artist was only thirty years old when the work was painted and its subject is visibly older than that.