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Portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain

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Year
  
1652–1653

Artist
  
Diego Velázquez

Period
  
Baroque

Media
  
Oil paint

Medium
  
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
  
1.27 m x 98 cm

Genre
  
Portrait

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Locations
  
Kunsthistorisches Museum, The Louvre

Similar
  
Diego Velázquez artwork, Baroque artwork, Portraits

The infanta Maria Theresa of Spain or The infanta Maria Theresa aged 14 is a 1653 portrait by Diego Velázquez of Maria Theresa of Spain. It has been cut down at the top and bottom and is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

It is considered one of the artist's best late portraits, showing its subject in a majestic pose, illuminated in a light dress against a dark background. Its seriousness and formality is added to by the two watches she carries, whilst the handkerchief in her left hand is one of the painting's highlights.

Velasquez and his assistants created three paintings to be sent to potential husbands for the Infanta (who eventually married Louis XIV). Two other versions are on display in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Louvre.

References

Portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain Wikipedia