Portrait of Innocent X
Diego Velázquez, 1650
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
- 1650
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 141 x 119 cm
- Collection
- Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome
- Reference
- XDV-0986
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Despite being regarded as one of the finest portraits ever painted, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was a relatively little-known work, displayed only privately by the Pamphilj family, and its true public fame came centuries later, even inspiring more than 45 variations painted by Francis Bacon.
