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VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y: Cardinal Infante Don Fernando as a Hunter

🖼 Cardinal Infante Don Fernando as a Hunter, 1632-33
Oil on canvas
192 × 108 cm
Madrid, Spain

Silvery light catches the cardinal infante's confident stance, rifle poised, with hunting dogs and landscape stretching behind. Velázquez captures the tension between ecclesiastical authority and aristocratic power, elevating royal portraiture through dynamic composition and masterful brushwork.

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