Philip IV, King of Spain — Diego Velázquez
Philip IV, King of Spain — Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez, probably 1624. Velázquez, 1624. An early portrait of the king he would paint for the rest of his life. All black, all restraint, and a face doing very little on purpose.
What arrives
- Printed on canvas and set in a wooden frame — not a poster, not paper behind glass.
- Made to order after you buy it, then shipped worldwide. Nothing sits in a warehouse fading.
- Three sizes, from a piece that suits a hallway to one that takes a wall.
About the image
- Reproduced from the museum's own high-resolution scan of the original painting — not a photograph of a poster.
- Original held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Public domain. Free to reproduce, which is the only reason a canvas like this can cost what it does.
Good to know
Screens are backlit and canvas is not. Colours read slightly deeper and softer on the wall than they do here — that is true of every print ever sold, and it is usually an improvement. Sizes are the framed dimensions. This painting is taller than it is wide, and the sizes below match its proportions almost exactly.
Finish the wall
Two full-length portraits, two hundred and sixty years apart — Sargent went to Madrid to copy Velazquez and never really stopped. Different proportions, so this is a pairing of subject rather than size.
