velasquez

The Dwarf Francisco Lezcano c. 1643-45Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.Though few ladies of the court of Philip have been depicted, Velázquez painted several of hisbuffoons and dwarfs. Velázquez appears to represent them with respect and sympathetically, asin El Primo (1644, English: The Favorite), whose intelligent face and folio with ink-bottle andpen by his side show him to be a wiser and better-educated man than many of the gallants of thecourt.