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Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV

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Diego Velazquez

1636 · Oil on canvas

Dimensions 301 × 314 cm

Collection: Art Whisperer

The Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV was a portrait of Philip IV of Spain on horseback, painted by Velázquez in 1635-36 as part of a series of equestrian portraits for the Hall of Realms, originally a wing of the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid (a series that also included that of Philip's son prince Balthasar Charles)

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Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV (1636) by Diego Velazquez, oil on canvas, from the Art Whisperer collection.

About Diego Velazquez

(baptized June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV, and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period.

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