DETAILS
- Artist
- Velázquez
- Date
- 1630
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 27 x 21 3/4 in. (68.6 x 55.2 cm)
- Collection
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- The Jules Bache Collection, 1949
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