Equestrian Portrait of Prince Balthasar Charles

Equestrian Portrait of Prince Balthasar Charles

Artist	Diego Velázquez
Year	1635
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	209 cm × 173 cm (82 in × 68 in)
Location	Prado, Madrid

The Equestrian Portrait of Prince Balthasar Charles is a 1635 equestrian portrait of Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias by Diego Velázquez. It is now in the Prado.

Velázquez had been commissioned to paint a series of equestrian portraits meant for the Salón de Reinos at the palacio del Buen Retiro in Madrid, with this work meant to fill the gap between the two larger equestrian portraits of the series were those of Balthasar and Philip IV.

According to art historian Andrew Graham Dixon: " little boy on this plump horse, underneath a lowering sky full of dark clouds. The child looks lost." ^[1]

References

↑ Graham Dixon speaking on BBC2 , The Culture Show

External links

Velázquez , exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this portrait (see index)

Diego Velázquez
List of works
Genre	The Lunch (c. 1617) Old Woman Frying Eggs (c. 1618) The Farmers' Lunch (1618) The Three Musicians (1618) The Waterseller of Seville (1618–1622) The Kitchen Maid (1620–1622) The Needlewoman (c. 1635–1643)
History	The Triumph of Bacchus (1628–1629) Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan (1629) The Surrender of Breda (1634–1635) Mars Resting (1640) Rokeby Venus (c. 1647–1651) Female Figure (1648) Las Hilanderas (c. 1657)
Religious	Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1618) San Pablo (1618–1620) Adoration of the Magi (1619) Joseph's Tunic (1630) Temptation of St. Thomas (1632) Christ Crucified (1632) Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1641–1644)
Portraits	Jerónima de la Asunción (1620) Don Luis de Góngora (1622) Philip IV in Armour (after 1623) Count-Duke of Olivares (1624) The Infante Don Carlos (1626–1627) Maria Anna (1630) Philip IV in Brown and Silver (1630s) Portrait of a Man (c. 1630) Prince Balthasar Charles with a Dwarf (1631) Doña Antonia de Ipeñarrieta y Galdós and Her Son Don Luis (1634) Count-Duke of Olivares (1635) Prince Balthasar Charles as a Hunter (1635) Juan Martínez Montañés (1635–1636) Pablo de Valladolid (1636–1637) Lady with a Fan (1638–1639) Philip IV in Fraga (1644) Sebastián de Morra (c. 1645) Francisco Lezcano (1645) Pope Innocent X (1650) Juan de Pareja (1650) Mariana of Austria (1652) Las Meninas (1656) Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress (1659) Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain (1659) Prince Philip Prospero (1659) Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Dress (1660)
Equestrian portraits	Elisabeth of France (c. 1628–1636) Count-Duke of Olivares (1634) Margarita of Austria (1634) Philip III (1634–1635) Philip IV (1635–1636) Prince Balthasar Charles (1635)
Jesters	Don John of Austria (1632–1633) Barbarroja (1633) Calabacillas (1637–1639) Don Diego de Acedo (1645)
Landscapes	View of the Garden of the Villa Medici (c. 1630)

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