Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait, painted around 1635 by Diego Velázquez, is one of the most technically dazzling portrait fragments to survive from the Spanish master's mature career. Painted with broken, flickering strokes that somehow cohere into an utterly convincing likeness from a distance, it exemplifies the loose, confident brushwork Velázquez developed at the height of his powers as court painter to Philip IV.
The same face appears in Velázquez's monumental "The Surrender of Breda" (Museo del Prado), suggesting this canvas served as a preparatory study — quite possibly a likeness of the artist himself, tucked into the crowd of his own great history painting. Few works better demonstrate how much illusion Velázquez could conjure from so few, so economical marks of paint.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Diego Velázquez |
| Year | ca. 1635 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 27 x 21 3/4 in. (68.6 x 55.2 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque (Spanish Golden Age) |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 30 × 40 cm (12″ × 16″) |
| Medium | 40 × 50 cm (16″ × 20″) |
| Large | 60 × 90 cm (24″ × 36″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
