# Las Meninas

By [Diego Velázquez](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/diego-velazquez.md>), 1656.

Velázquez places the royal household, painter, viewers, and reflected monarchs in a complex exchange of gazes and spaces.

## Details

- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 320.5 × 281.5 cm
- Collection: [Museo Nacional del Prado](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/museo-del-prado.md>)

[View collection record](<https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/las-meninas/2cd3eccf-4551-4a43-ac72-cef090a05bd7>)

- Categories: Painting
- Styles: [Baroque](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/baroque.md>), [Spanish Baroque](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/spanish-baroque.md>)

## Image

![The young Infanta stands among attendants in a palace studio while Velázquez paints at a large canvas.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/prado-las-meninas/full.jpg?v=9f40c1ef3b5b780f72e2fc7fa32419c3c6785059854bd04ab9333d84e0aadff1>)

## Sources & credits

- Image via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
- Royal Collection; Museo Nacional del Prado
- [Image source](<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Meninas,_by_Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez,_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth.jpg>)
- Artwork metadata based on Museo Nacional del Prado collection records; image provenance is recorded per artwork.

[Canonical HTML page](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/art/las-meninas>)