Opened: 1778 Address: 149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, London W1J 7NT, United Kingdom Website: https://www.wellingtoncollection.co.uk/ Collection: • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Napoleone come Marte pacificatore (1803-06) • Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660): El aguador de Sevilla (c.1623) Apsley House in Art: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Green Park, London…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Las hilanderas, o La fábula de Aracne (The Spinners or The Fable of Arachne) 1655–1660 Oil on canvas, 220 x 289 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This painting is the result of two acts carried out in…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) El dios Marte (Mars, God of War) c.1638 Oil on canvas, 179 x 95 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The first documentation of Diego Velazquez‘s Mars is from 1701–03, when it appeared in the inventory of paintings…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Las lanzas, o La Rendición de Breda (The Surrender of Breda) c.1635 Oil on canvas, 307.3 x 371.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid On June 5, 1625 the Dutch governor of Breda, Justinus van Nassau, surrendered the…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo crucificado (Christ Crucified) c.1632 Oil on canvas, 248 x 169 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Stylistically, this work appears to have been made in the early 1630s -soon after the artist returned from Italy– and most authors…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) 1631 Oil on canvas, 100 x 57 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Unlike the Christ Crucified (P1161) from the convent of San Plácido, whose authorship and extraordinary merits are…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La fragua de Vulcano (The Forge of Vulcan) 1630 Oil on canvas, 223 x 290 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A figure suddenly appears on the left in a forge where various blacksmiths are working, dressed in…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco (The Drunkards, or The Triumph of Bacchus) 1628–1629 Oil on canvas, 165 x 225 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Documentation of payment received by Velázquez in July 1629 for an…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Las Meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV (Las meninas or The Family of Philip IV) 1656 Oil on canvas, 320.5 x 281.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is one of Velázquez‘s largest paintings and among…
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