Velazquez

Velazquez is by S. L. Bensusan and is illustrated with eight reproductions in colour. A picture painted "for the Torre de la Parada" shows "King Philip's younger brother in hunting costume." The text says that Velazquez "stands, like Bach and Beethoven in the world of music, respected even by those who do not understand."

A plate caption says a picture "was painted about the year 1656" and "presents the Infanta Margarita attended by her maids of honour, while Velazquez himself is shown painting the portraits of Philip IV. and his second wife Mariana of Austria, who are seen reflected in the mirror." One of his latest critics "reduces the pictures of Velazquez now in existence to eighty-nine, while acknowledging that some have disappeared from the royal palaces of Spain and cannot be traced." A caption describes a portrait of "one of the dwarfs in the service of the king", "one of the last portraits painted by Velazquez", life size, that "hangs in the Prado at Madrid."