Painting, oils on canvas. One of two unusually small copies (this & the next) for a member of the Swedish government, it is painted entirely in glazes, layers of translucent paint, which give it a jewel-like luminosity. A copy of a painting by Sanchez Coello, though older, he was contemporary to Velsquez; his paintings still sport the ornate ruffs that were later prohibited by the king & replaced with the, typically, more demure collar of Velasquez's subjects.

90 x 60 cm (35 x 23 in)