A Study of Velázquez's Lady with a Fan

In this video I make a copy of a Velázquez's Lady with a Fan, 1638. This painting in the Wallace Collection in London has been a favorite of mine and here I try to learn more about it by doing a master copy over the course of a few days. Thanks for watching and please subscribe if you enjoyed this video and would like to see more art videos like this in the future.
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Materials: oil colors, nylon and sable brushes, walnut oil, fast drying medium, canvas panel

Book: Velázquez by Maurizio Marini. Electa publisher

More information from the Wallace Collection's site:
As court painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Velázquez created consummate portraits of the Spanish royal family and the high nobility. The Lady with a Fan is one of his most famous and enigmatic portraits. Long believed to represent a Spanish lady, recent studies have suggested that the sitter may have been French and not Spanish. The only Frenchwoman known to have been painted by Velázquez was the Duchess of Chevreuse, intimate friend of the Spanish-born Queen of France, Anne of Austria. Her political conspiring brought her the enmity of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and, in 1637, forced her to escape to Spain. In the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth is another portrait of the same woman, probably slightly younger, in a much more modest pose and clearly Spanish dress.