2-645-717 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Principe Don Carlos hijo de Felipe II', (Prince Carlos de Austrias), 1557-1559, (c1934). Don Carlos (1545-1548), son of Philip II and his first wife Maria of Portugal, was born in Valladolid on July 8, 1545. He was proclaimed Prince of Asturias in 1560, at the age of fifteen. Mentally unstable, he was imprisoned by his father in 1568, and died after six months in solitary confinement in Madrid on 24 July 1568. Oil on canvas. Held in Museo del Prado, Madrid. From Galerias De Europa: Museo Del Prado, by A. De Beruete y Moret & Augusto L. Mayer. [Editorial Labor, S.A., Barcelona, c1934]