Court Dwarf Don Antonio el Inglés - VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y - WGA
Court Dwarf Don Antonio el Inglés by VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Court Dwarf Don Antonio el Inglés by VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y

Court Dwarf Don Antonio el Inglés

by VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y, Oil on canvas, 142 x 107 cm

It was customary at the courts of Europe during the seventeenth century for monarchs to keep dwarfs. Vel�zquez’s sympathy for the fools and dwarfs of the Spanish court is obvious: in the pathos and humane understanding demonstrated by the single portraits with which he (and he alone) paid tribute to them.

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