This is a list of paintings and drawings by the 17th-century Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Velázquez is estimated to have produced between only 110 and 120 known canvases.[1] Among these paintings, however, are many widely known and influential works.
Signed and dated in a fold of clothing difficult to read.[2] This would be a posthumous portrait, as the sitter died in 1618, although Mayer thought that monogram and date could be apocryphal.[3]
Signed and dated "Diego Velazquez f. 1620". The phylactery around the cross with its inscription, now illegible, was erased in 1944, after entering at the Museum, for having believed apocryphal.[4]
Allende-Salazar (1925), Mayer (1936) and Camón Aznar estimate that this could be a self-portrait. López-Rey and Brown think that the subject could be the artist's brother Juan, also a painter.[6]
Dating is controversial. Most critics suggest 1635.[10] López-Rey gives 1626, based on 1637 information from a picture of a deer antler painted by Velázquez bearing the inscription "Le mató el Rey nuestro Sr. Phe. quarto el year 1626".[11] A technical study by Carmen Garrido placed the date between 1626 and 1628.[12]
The dating of this painting and the next has been controversial. Most critics date it during the second trip to Italy, but technical studies by in the Prado confirm the 1630 date proposed by López-Rey.[17]
Appears unfinished, with the hands just sketched, although López-Rey suggests that Velázquez may have intended this as a finished work, highlighting the essential features of the portrait.[18]
Brown suggestions that a contemporary workshop was involved in the painting of lady's costume and the figure of the child; changes once thought to be later additions, but denied by radiography.[19][20]
Generally considered the work of Velázquez and his workshop.[21] For López-Rey only the head and some small details could be considered by Velazquez.[22]
Unfinished according to López-Rey, highlighting the vigorous brushstrokes in the garment,[25] and "one of the most captivating female portraits by Velazquez," according to Brown.[26]
The work has been cut.[27] Critics have unanimously considered it by Velázquez. Brown (1986) believes that it could be a study used as a model for later portraits.[28]
Painted on a portrait of the king, perhaps only sketched. López-Rey said, confirmed in the technical study conducted at the Museo del Prado, that the top of the curtain was painted by another hand on a piece of fabric added to the original composition, in order to match the canvas with Philip IV with a lion, the Museo del Prado, the work of the workshop.[29][30]
Thought to have been given to Yale in 1925, the painting has previously been attributed to the 17th-century Spanish school. Some scholars are prepared to attribute the painting to Velázquez, though the Prado Museum in Madrid is reserving judgment. The work will be restored by conservators at Yale.[32][33]
Centro de Investigación Diego Velázquez, Fundación Focus-Abengoa Sevilla
Presented in Paris in 1990 as the work of Velazquez's circle. Sotheby's auction in London (1994) with attribution to Velazquez relying on the favorable opinion of José López-Rey and Jonathan Brown.[35][36] This is rejected by Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez, who assigns it to Alonso Cano.[37]
Inscription "AETATIS SVAE. 40-". Presented by Mayer in 1936, López-Rey admits as Velázquez, noting its poor condition, and thinks that the portrait could be of Francisco de Rioja.[38] For Brown, only "possibly Velázquez".[39]
Inscriptions: "AVE MARIA" and at top right, "El RºP.M. Fr. Simon D. Roxas". Antonio Palomino notes that Velazquez painted a portrait of Simon de Rojas "being dead".[40] Identified by Pérez Sánchez in a Madrid private collection, attributed to Francisco de Zurbarán.[41]
Riña entre soldados ante la embajada de España / "La rissa"
1630
28.9 × 39.6
Colección Pallavicini, Rome
Oil on copper. Attributed to Velazquez by Roberto Longhi, noting similarities with The Forge and Joseph's Tunic, a thesis defended by Marini and Salort, who noted the exceptional technical quality.[46]
Santa Rufina
1632–1634
77 × 64
Centro de Investigaciones Diego Velázquez, Fundación Focus-Abengoa, Seville
Posited by Mayer in 1917 as a self-portrait, relating to one of the characters in The Surrender of Breda. Cataloged in the museum as a work of the workshop, after exclusion by López-Rey, but has again been attributed to Velazquez with the support of Jonathan Brown after cleaning in 2009.[47]
Portrait of a Man
1630
Otto Naumann, New York City
Rediscovered in 2010, sold at an auction in London for $4.7 million in 2011 to New York dealer Otto Naumann.[48]
Oil on copper. Some documents show that Velázquez painted portraits in miniature on copper, including some members of the royal family.
83/88
Don Francisco Bandrés de Abarca
1638–1646
64 × 53
Private collection, Switzerland
Supported by López-Rey, while noting the poor condition (possibly a fragment half-length portrait) and lack of resemblance to other portraits of the same period.[49]
Exhibited at the museum as "attributed" to Velazquez and excluded by López-Rey and Brown, but supported by Gallego in the exhibition of 1990, Marias (1996) and Bottineau (1998).
^Vogel, Carol (September 10, 2009). "An Old Spanish Master Emerges From Grime". The New York Times. Retrieved September 11, 2009. Jonathan Brown, this country's leading Velázquez expert ... "Velázquez was a painter who measured out his genius in thimblefuls." His output was so small that, depending on who's counting, Mr. Brown estimates, there are only 110 to 120 known canvases by the artist.
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Catálogo de la exposición (1996). Obras maestras del arte español. Museo de Bellas Artes de Budapest. Madrid: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya. ISBN84-860-2288-6.
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