Velasques in NY Museums

The Frick Collection

To mark the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Diego Rodrigues de Sylva y Velasques ( 1599-1660 ), The Frick Collection has brought together for the first time six of the Spanish master's portraits belonging to public collections in New York. The show organized jointly by the Frick Collection and The Hispanic Society, the exhibition demonstrates the variety and power of the Spanish master's work over a lifetime.

1. "Gaspar de Guzmán Count-Duke of Oliveras", The Hispanic Society of America, 222cm x 137.8cm.

2. "Portrait of a little girl", The Hispanic Society of America, 51.5cm x 41cm.

3. "King Philip IV of Spain, The Frick Collection, 129.8cm x 99.4cm.

4. "Juan de Pareja", The MetropolitanMuseum of Art, 81.3cm x 69.9cm.

5. "Camillo Astalli,Cardinal Pamphili, The Hispanic Society of America, 61cm x 48.5cm.

6. "Maria Teresa, infanta of Spain", The Metropolitan Museum of New York, 44.5cm x 40cm.

The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th street, NY NY 10021.

This is the most beautiful Museum in NY, the size is human, concentrated, situated in a beautiful villa, the collection is emazing, it includes among many others a three magnificent paintings of Vermeer, Johannes Vermeer, 1632-1675 was not a prolific artist, he painted only 62 paintings of which only 26 remained.

1. "Officer and laughing girl", The Frick Collection.

2. "Girl interrupted at her music", The Frick Collection.

3. "Mistress and maid", The Frick Collection.

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