Portrait of the Jester Calabazas
c. 1631–32
Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)
European Painting and Sculpture
Portrait of the Jester Calabazas, c. 1631–32. Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660). Oil on canvas; framed: 199.3 x 133.1 x 12.7 cm (78 7/16 x 52 3/8 x 5 in.); unframed: 175 x 106 cm (68 7/8 x 41 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1965.15 Calabazas holds a wind-driven pinwheel and a miniature portrait of a woman, together suggesting the inconstancy of love.
- Maker/Artist
- Velázquez, Diego
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 199.3 x 133.1 x 12.7 cm (78 7/16 x 52 3/8 x 5 in.); Unframed: 175 x 106 cm (68 7/8 x 41 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1965.15
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1965, Portraiture: The Image of the Individual, Velazquez, Velázquez, His Third Journey to Italy, Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting, The Palace of the Planet King. Philip IV and the Buen Retiro, Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, Diego Velázquez: The Early Court Portraits, Velázquez, <em>Exposition Retrospective</em>. Palais des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France (1866).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture
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