Gaspar de Gusman, Count of Olivarez
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 24 3/16 x 17 7/16 in. (61.5 x 44.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Accession Number
2018.839.107
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)|Peter Paul Rubens|Paulus Pontius · 1599–1660
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, baptized on June 6, 1599, in Seville, Spain, emerged as one of the supreme masters of the Spanish Baroque. The eldest son of notary Juan Rodríguez de Silva and Jerónima Velázquez, he displayed prodigious talent early on. At around age 11 or 12, he apprenticed under Francisco Pacheco, the esteemed Sevillian painter, theorist, and writer whose studio functioned ...