Velazquez . Don Balthasar Carlosin the first picture that Velazquez paintedof the unfortunate young prince, the onethat is now in America. He has growna little older and a little more ugly inthe canvas that is devoted entirely to hisportrait; he does not wear good clothes,but a coarse green coat with stockings tomatch. The Idiot of Coria is also dressedin green, though his garments are a littlericher, but Don Antonio seems to havebeen a person of some importance. He ispictured in the Prado standing beside abeautiful mastiff almost as big as himself,and he wears a ruddy brown dress workedwith g
Velazquez . Don Balthasar Carlosin the first picture that Velazquez paintedof the unfortunate young prince, the onethat is now in America. He has growna little older and a little more ugly inthe canvas that is devoted entirely to hisportrait; he does not wear good clothes,but a coarse green coat with stockings tomatch. The Idiot of Coria is also dressedin green, though his garments are a littlericher, but Don Antonio seems to havebeen a person of some importance. He ispictured in the Prado standing beside abeautiful mastiff almost as big as himself,and he wears a ruddy brown dress workedwith gold. He carries a large plumed hatin his hand. Sebastian de Morra, who sitsfacing the audience, has one of the mostwonderful heads ever set on canvas by the PLATE ADRIANO PULIDO PAREJA This picture may be seen in the National Gallery. It issigned and dated i6j9» and was purchased from the LongfordCastle Collection in 1890. Senor Beruete holds a strong opinionthat it was not painted by VELAZQUEZ 55 artist. This dwarf too is dressed in thegreen costume that would seem to havebeen worn by the dwarfs attached to thecourt of Spain. In addition to the littlecompany of dwarfs there were buffoons atthe court, and of these Velazquez paintedPablillos, who is known as the comedian,and Don Juan of Austria, whose portraitis a triumph of harmony in colour, thepink of mantle and stockings contrastingadmirably with black doublet and cape. In the last years the painter seems tohave gone a little further down in the socialscale in search of his sitters, for the .^sop is a beggar, and Menippus is no all these sufferers and outcasts Velaz^quez responded with a sympathy that isnot less clearly revealed than the technique \that gives so much enduring delight to \artists the world over. 56 VELAZQUEZ In the final decade of the painters lifePhilip seems to have given him no more thantwo sittings. Perhaps the artists Marsand his Venus with the Mirror gaveoffence in Mad
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