Diego Velázquez · 1650
Portrait of Juan de Pareja
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Velázquez's portrait of his assistant Juan de Pareja, painted in Rome — a bearded man with a mass of dark hair turns to meet our gaze, a frayed white lace collar over his grey-green doublet and cloak against a plain grey ground. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Up to 16 × 18.6 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Portrait of Juan de Pareja
Velázquez painted Juan de Pareja, the enslaved man who served as an assistant in his workshop and became a painter in his own right, in Rome in 1650, while he was in Italy buying works of art for Philip IV. The portrait was shown at the Pantheon on 19 March 1650, where, according to Antonio Palomino, painters from many countries said that the other pictures were art but this one alone was 'truth'. It is the earliest known portrait of a Spanish man of Moorish descent. It was the first painting to sell for more than £1,000,000, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art called its purchase in 1970 'among the most important acquisitions in the Museum's history'.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered one of the greatest artists in the history of Western art.
All Diego Velázquez prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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