Diego Velázquez · c. 1640
The Needlewoman
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An unfinished study of a young woman bent over her sewing, a red ribbon in her brown hair and a white shawl over her dark bodice; her face is fully modelled in soft light while her hands and the cloth are only sketched in. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Up to 16 × 19.4 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 The Needlewoman
The Needlewoman (La costurera) was painted between about 1635 and 1643 and is unfinished: the head, modelled in light and shadow, is the most complete part, while the arms and hands are only briefly sketched. It has been proposed that the sitter was the artist's daughter Francisca, and the face resembles that of The Lady with a Fan. Its attribution was once questioned, but the traditional attribution to Velázquez is supported by an inventory of the works in his rooms. It is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
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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