"This picture is well worthy of note, as it shows how the crowned monk of the Escorial looked when on the brink of the grave. In Pantoja's worn, sickly, sour old man, with lack-lustre, restless eyes, protruding under-lip and
'pallid cheeks and ashy hue
in which sad death his portraiture hath writ',
(Spenser)
wearing a rusty sugar-loaf hat and holding in his hand a common brown rosary, we see the last stage of the sumptuous Prince whose youthful bearing has been made immortal by the pencil of Titian."
(Sir William Stirling Maxwell.)
By Juan Pantoja de la Cruz in the Prado Gallery, Madrid.