The Surrender of Breda
1634–1635 · Oil on canvas · Museo del Prado, Madrid
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About this work
- Artist
- Diego Velázquez (1599–1660)
- Year
- 1634–1635
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 307 × 367 cm
- Collection
- Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Movement
- Baroque
Justinus van Nassau hands the key of Breda to the Genoese general Ambrogio Spinola, who stops him from kneeling with a hand on his shoulder, while behind the two commanders the beaten Dutch garrison stands on the left and the Spanish ranks on the right under a forest of upright lances that gives the picture its Spanish name, Las Lanzas. The city had fallen on 5 June 1625 after a long siege, and Velázquez, who had travelled to Italy with Spinola in 1629, painted the surrender in 1634 to 1635 for the Hall of Realms in the Buen Retiro palace, part of a cycle of twelve victories commissioned by Philip IV and his minister Olivares. The courtesy of the victor is the subject; there is no humiliation, only tired faces and smoke on the horizon. More than three and a half metres wide, it is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid and is counted among his greatest works.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
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