Las Hilanderas
Diego Velázquez · 17th century
The story
Las Hilanderas is a painting by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, in the Museo del Prado of Madrid, Spain. It is also known by the title The Fable of Arachne. Most scholars regard it as a late work by the artist, dating from 1657 to 1658, but some argue that it was done c. 1644-48. Velázquez scholar Jonathan Brown writes that Las Hilanderas and Las Meninas are arguably Velázquez's "two greatest paintings.... [T]hey are the largest, most complicated compositions executed between 1640 and 1660, a period during which Velázquez painted mostly portraits of single figures".
- Artist
- Diego Velázquez
- Date
- 17th century
- Collection
- Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 220 × 289 cm
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