Velázquez, 1650 - Portrait of a Man - fine art print

In 1650 Velázquez made the classic art painting titled Portrait of a Man. The 370 year-old piece of art was made with the size: 27 1/4 x 22 1/4 in (69,2 x 56,5 cm) and was painted with the techinque of oil on canvas. Moveover, the piece of art is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889 (licensed - public domain). The creditline of the artwork is the following: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889. Further, the alignment is in portrait format with an aspect ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width.

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The identity of this reserved sitter, who seems warily to assess us with a sidelong glance, is unknown and the attribution to Velázquez has been much disputed. A reconsideration based on a detailed technical examination suggests that it may have been painted in Rome by Velázquez at the same time as the portrait of the artist’s enslaved assistant, Juan de Pareja. In Rome, Velázquez portrayed people of various ranks and professions, ranging from the pope and cardinals to the pope’s barber and people such as Juan de Córdoba, who aided Velázquez in the purchase of works of art for the Spanish royal collection.

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