The Education of the Virgin

Artist: Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)

ca. 1617–18

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

unframed: 66 1/8 × 53 9/16 in. (168 × 136 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Henry H. Townshend, B.A. 1897, LL.B. 1901, and Dr. Raynham Townshend, B.S. 1900S

Accession Number

1900.43

Culture

Spanish

Period

17th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Probably from the collection of Captain Charles Henry Townshend; Henry Hotchkiss Townshend and Raynham Townshend; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography
  • John J. Marciari et al., El joven Velázquez: a propósito de la educación de la Virgen de Yale, ed. Benito Navarrete Prieto (Seville, Spain: Espacio Santa Clara, Instituto de la Cultura y las Artes de Sevilla, 2015), ill
  • Roberto Alonso Moral and Musée du Louvre, Velazquez sous la direction scientifique de Guillaume Kientz (Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2015), 116–19, no. 14, fig. 9
  • Véronique Gérard Powell, "La chair du Récit," Dossier de L'Art (2015), 54–55, ill
  • John J. Marciari et al., El joven Velázquez: "La educación de la Virgen" de Yale restaurada, Spanish ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2014),
  • John J. Marciari et al., The Young Velázquez: "The Education of the Virgin" Restored, English ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2014),
  • Tanya J. Tiffany, Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), 9–11, fig. 5–6
  • Matthias Weniger, Spanische Malerei (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 2012), 138–39, fig. abb. 23.2
  • John J. Marciari, "Redescubriendo a Velázquez/Velázquez Rediscovered: The Education of the Virgin at Yale," Ars Magazine 3 (2010), 52–66, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations)

Subject

Mary

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