The Buffoon, Pablo de Valladolid, c.1635 Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez (1599-1660)
Location: Prado Museum Madrid SpainOriginal Size: 209 x 123 cm
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Painted by European Аrtists with Academic Education
Museum Quality
+ 4 cm (1.6") Margins for Stretching
Creation Time: 8-9 Weeks
Creation Process
We create our paintings with museum quality and covering the highest academic standards. Once we get your order, it will be entirely hand-painted with oil on canvas. All the materials we use are the highest level, being totally artist graded painting materials and linen canvas.
We will add 1.6" (4 cm) additional blank canvas all over the painting for stretching.
High quality and detailing in every inch are time consuming. The reproduction of Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez also needs time to dry in order to be completely ready for shipping, as this is crucial to not be damaged during transportation.
Based on the size, level of detail and complexity we need 8-9 weeks to complete the process.
In case the delivery date needs to be extended in time, or we are overloaded with requests, there will be an email sent to you sharing the new timelines of production and delivery.
TOPofART wants to remind you to keep patient, in order to get you the highest quality, being our mission to fulfill your expectations.
We not stretch and frame our oil paintings due to several reasons:
Painting reproduction is a high quality expensive product, which we cannot risk to damage by sending it being stretched.
Also, there are postal restrictions, regarding the size of the shipment.
Additionally, due to the dimensions of the stretched canvas, the shipment price may exceed the price of the product itself.
You can stretch and frame your painting in your local frame-shop.
Delivery
Once the painting The Buffoon, Pablo de Valladolid is ready and dry, it will be shipped to your delivery address. The canvas will be rolled-up in a secure postal tube.
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The portrait is dated about 1635 and represents after the Calabazas, a moment of fundamental importance in Velazquez' work. The large figure, painted black on black, is set against a silver grey ground more or less animated by its own light, which flashes in the area between the feet and the cast shadows, and in the right margin of the picture, contrasting with the black suit and cape.
Almost as if rediscovering the pure relationship of body and space defined by shadows, the artist has eliminated all definite limits, and only by indicating the projection of the shadows, has conferred on the composition a character as vehement as an apparition, at the same time establishing a solid architectonic balance. The result was not easy to attain, as is indicated by the numerous afterthoughts or pentimenti that are seen especially in the lower part of the picture, where the static structure, obtained by means of a jet of light, achieves its maximum intensity.
Several other works of Velazquez - the portrait of Admiral Pareja, and those of the jesters Morra and Barbarroja - share in this search for an 'environmental fusion' (Camon Aznar), in which the data of experience are transformed into an interior vision. It is an affirmation of the artist's conception according to which every object or being is an actor in the 'theatre of the world', as Calderon put it. Everyone's identity must be preserved, in artistic form, in a choral series of 'portraits' that make up the infinitely animated universe.
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