Juan de Pareja

Diego Velázquez

1650 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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About this work

Artist: Diego Velázquez (1599–1660)
Year: 1650
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 81.3 × 69.9 cm
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Movement: Baroque

Juan de Pareja, a man of Moorish descent from Antequera who was enslaved in Velázquez's household and studio for at least two decades, turns to look straight at the viewer with his hand on his hip, a white collar over a dark coat, painted with the loosest, quickest brushwork Velázquez had yet allowed himself. He made the portrait in Rome in 1650, during the trip on which he painted Pope Innocent X, as a public demonstration of what he could do, and it was shown at the Pantheon on 19 March that year; according to the biographer Palomino, painters from every nation said the other pictures were art, but this one was truth. Within months Velázquez signed the papers that freed Pareja by 1654, and Pareja went on to a career as a painter in Madrid. The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought the picture in 1970, the first painting to pass a million pounds at auction.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 12×18 and 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is Juan de Pareja in the public domain?

Yes. Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Juan de Pareja painted, and in what medium?

Juan de Pareja dates from 1650 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 81.3 × 69.9 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Diego Velázquez's Juan de Pareja — Juan de Pareja — the painter's assistant in a grey coat and lace collar, looking out with quiet dignity — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. The Spanish Golden Age, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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