Diego Velázquez

Velázquez, Diego Rodriquez de Silva y

Spanish, 1599 - 1660

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Shown from the waist up, a woman with pale skin and brown hair, wearing a dark corset and white fabric over her shoulders, looks down at needlework in her hands in this vertical painting. Her cheeks are rosy and her dark hair is pulled back, though it seems looser down the sides of her face. A small, coral-red, crescent shape at the back of her head could be covering her hair or holding it in place. White, nearly translucent fabric lies loosely across her shoulders over a dark, moss-brown, long-sleeved dress. Her breasts swell over the squared, lace-trimmed neckline. She holds white fabric and perhaps a needle in her hands, which rest on a tan cushion on her lap. The scene is loosely painted throughout so some of the details are difficult to make out. A darker spot along her right index finger could be a thimble. The background is the same olive-tan of the cushion.
Diego Velázquez, The Needlewoman, c. 1640/1650, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.81

The Needlewoman

Diego Velázquez · c. 1640/1650 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.81

Edouard Manet, Philip IV (Philippe IV), 1862, etching, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1975.70.8

Philip IV (Philippe IV)

Edouard Manet · 1862 · etching ·  Accession ID  1975.70.8

Edouard Manet, The Infanta Marguerita (Infante Marguerite), 1861, etching, Rosenwald Collection, 1951.10.341

The Infanta Marguerita (Infante Marguerite)

Edouard Manet · 1861 · etching ·  Accession ID  1951.10.341

Francisco Muntaner, Compañía para el grabado de los cuadros de los Reales Palacios, Las Hilanderas (The Spinners), 1796, etching and engraving on laid paper, Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund, 2022.183.4

Las Hilanderas (The Spinners)

Francisco Muntaner, Compañía para el grabado de los cuadros de los Reales Palacios · 1796 · etching and engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2022.183.4

Francisco Goya, Felipe IV, 1778, etching retouched with pen and black ink on laid paper black ink [working proof], Rosenwald Collection, 1951.10.40

Felipe IV

Francisco Goya · 1778 · etching retouched with pen and black ink on laid paper black ink [working proof] ·  Accession ID  1951.10.40

Francisco Goya, Un enano (A Dwarf), 1778, etching on heavy laid paper [first edition impression printed in the Calcografia in 1778-79], Rosenwald Collection, 1951.10.37

Un enano (A Dwarf)

Francisco Goya · 1778 · etching on heavy laid paper [first edition impression printed in the Calcografia in 1778-79] ·  Accession ID  1951.10.37

Francisco Goya, Aesopvs (Aesop), 1778, etching [working proof], Rosenwald Collection, 1948.11.121

Aesopvs (Aesop)

Francisco Goya · 1778 · etching [working proof] ·  Accession ID  1948.11.121

Francisco Goya, Baco (Bacchus), 1778, etching on heavy laid paper [first edition impression printed in the Calcografia in 1778-79], Rosenwald Collection, 1951.10.34

Baco (Bacchus)

Francisco Goya · 1778 · etching on heavy laid paper [first edition impression printed in the Calcografia in 1778-79] ·  Accession ID  1951.10.34

Francisco Goya, Un enano (A Dwarf), 1778, etching on laid paper [working proof], Rosenwald Collection, 1949.5.474

Un enano (A Dwarf)

Francisco Goya · 1778 · etching on laid paper [working proof] ·  Accession ID  1949.5.474

Francisco Goya, Baco (Bacchus), 1778, etching on heavy laid paper [first edition impression printed in the Calcografia in 1778-79], Gift of W.G. Russell Allen, 1941.1.164

Baco (Bacchus)

Francisco Goya · 1778 · etching on heavy laid paper [first edition impression printed in the Calcografia in 1778-79] ·  Accession ID  1941.1.164

Bibliography

1979

  • López-Rey, José. Velázquez; the Artist as Maker. Lausanne and Paris, 1979.

1982

  • Harris, Enriqueta. Velázquez. Ithaca, 1982.

1986

  • Brown, Jonathan. Velázquez, Painter and Courtier. New Haven and London, 1986.

1990

  • Brown, Jonathan, and Richard G. Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1990: 116.