Democritus
Diego Velázquez, 1630
For now, just to look at
The photograph we have of this work is not sharp enough to print at the quality we want, so we are not selling it for now. We are looking for a better one.
About the work
- Artist
- Diego Velázquez
- Date
- 1630
- Collection
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
- Reference
- XDV-0956
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Infrared reflectography suggests that the figure was originally a laughing drinker, and that the globe was added later to transform him into the philosopher Democritus, 'elevating the drinker to the rank of sage'.
