The Three Spanish Musketeers

“WHEN he was 85, Picasso painted “Musketeer,” a brazenly humorous depiction of a nobleman in the foppish fashion of late-16th-century Spain. A homage to his Spanish forefathers El Greco and Velázquez, it makes an appearance in “Spanish Painting From El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth and History,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through March 28.

Carmen Giménez, who with Francisco Calvo Serraller curated the show, hung “Musketeer” 1967 in the “Knights and Ghosts” section, near El Greco’s “Portrait of a Man of the House of Leiva” circa 1580-85 and a Velázquez portrait 1619-22 that is believed to be of his father-in-law, Francisco Pacheo.”

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