Margaret of Austria on horseback, after Velázquez
Medium
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 14 5/8 × 12 1/4 in. (37.2 × 31.1 cm) Sheet: 23 9/16 × 15 13/16 in. (59.8 × 40.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Rogers Fund and Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922
Accession Number
22.60.23
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)|Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain|Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 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 ...