Prado Conserve Velázquez's Queen Elisabeth of France
February 28 2025
Picture: Prado
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Exciting news from Spain that the Prado Museum have conserved Diego Velázquez's Equestrian Portrait of Queen Elisabeth of France. Painted in 1635, the work was part of a set of equestrian portraits which were all given rather unsightly vertical canvas extensions during their early lives. The cleaning of the painting was undertaken by the conservator María Álvarez Garcillán. Click here for a very beautiful high-res image which you can zoom into till your heart's content.
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