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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660). Portrait of a Man, ca. 1630. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jules Bache Collection, 1949 (49.7.42).
Velázquez Rediscovered
November 17, 2009–February 7, 2010
European Paintings, Gallery 16, 2nd floor
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The Metropolitan Museum''s European paintings chairman, Keith Christiansen, and head of paintings conservation, Michael Gallagher, discuss their recent reattribution of an extraordinary portrait in the collection to the greatest of all Spanish painters.
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Velázquez Rediscovered features a newly identified painting by Velázquez, Portrait of a Man, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, and recently reattributed to the master himself following its cleaning and restoration. It will be shown alongside other works from the Museum’s superior collection of works by the great Spanish painter.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication, Velázquez Rediscovered, with an introduction by Keith Christiansen and essays by Jonathan Brown and Michael Gallagher.


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