Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Velázquez Likenesses

Diego Velázquez
Portrait of Francisco Pacheco
c. 1620
Prado

Francisco Pacheco was an important teacher of Diego Velázquez, the future court painter to Philip IV of Spain. Francisco  Pacheco was also the father-in-law of Velázquez, who married Pacheco's daughter in 1618. The identity of the sitter in the portrait above is firmly established as Francisco Pacheco. The sitter in the portrait below is not documented, but curators at the Prado are inclined to credit the long-standing belief that this is Juana Pacheco, the painter's wife. A range of Velázquez portraits follows, a few made for his own circle, many others for the Court.

Diego Velázquez
A Sybil
c. 1632
Prado

Diego Velázquez
Portrait of a man (possibly Juan Velázquez, the painter's brother)
c. 1623
Prado

Diego Velázquez
Portrait of a man (possibly a self-portrait)
c. 1630-35
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Diego Velázquez
Equestrian Portrait of Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares
 1636
Prado

Diego Velázquez
Portrait of Mariana de Austria, Queen of Spain
1652
Prado

Diego Velázquez
Portrait of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria in Hunting Dress
1633
Prado

Diego Velázquez
Portrait of Antonia de Ipeñarrieta y Galdós & her son Luis
1631
Prado

Diego Velázquez
Portrait of the court buffoon known as Pablo de Valladolid
c. 1635
Prado

Diego Velázquez
Portrait of the court buffoon called El Primo
c. 1636-38
Prado

Jacques-Etienne Pannier
Posthumous portrait of Velázquez
1848
etching
Prado

Léon-Joseph Bonnat after Velázquez
Self-portrait 
1898
etching
Prado

I am grateful for the beautiful reproductions made available by Museo del Prado.