Portrait of Juan de Pareja
Diego Velázquez · 1650
Why it's great
A man with a dark complexion, a wide white collar and a heavy cloak looks out with an intelligent face. Diego Velázquez painted his assistant, Juan de Pareja, in 1650, and Pareja later became a free man and a painter himself.
Where to see it
📍 Metropolitan Museum of ArtManhattan, United States
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Diego Velázquez was a Spanish painter born in Seville in 1599. He moved to Madrid as a young man and became the court painter to King Philip IV, painting portraits such as Las Meninas that are among the greatest in the world. He died in Madrid in 1660.
