Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez / Juan de Pareja (born about 1610, died 1670) / 1650Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
Juan de Pareja (born about 1610, died 1670)
1650

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Creator Name: Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y
Creator Nationality: European; Iberian; Spanish
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: Spanish, 1599-1660
Creator Name-CRT: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
Title: Juan de Pareja (born about 1610, died 1670)
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Creation Start Date: 1650
Creation End Date: 1650
Creation Date: 1650
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 32 x 27 1/2 in. (81.3 x 69.9 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1971.86
Credit Line: Purchase, Fletcher and Rogers Funds, and Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), by exchange, supplemented by gifts from friends of the Museum, 1971
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

In 1648 Velázquez was dispatched to Rome by Philip IV of Spain to buy works of art for the Alcazar palace in Madrid. In Rome he painted an official portrait of Pope Innocent X (Galeria Doria Pamphili, Rome). Before starting work on the papal portrait he made an informal painting of his own assistant Juan de Pareja, a Sevillian of Moorish descent. This picture was exhibited in Rome on March 19, 1650. In his life of Velázquez (1724), Palomino writes that the painting "was generally applauded by all the painters from different countries, who said that the other pictures in the show were art but this one alone was 'truth.'" The direct approach in this painting contrasts with the more formal structure of Velázquez's state portraits.


AMICA ID: MMA_.1971.86
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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