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Wikipedia: Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour) is a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The work's complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and creates an uncertain relationship between the viewer and the figures depicted. Because of these complexities, Las Meninas has been one of the most widely analysed works in Western painting.
![[John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882, oil on canvas, 222]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/John_Singer_Sargent_001_s.jpg "John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882, oil on canvas, 222")
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![[Key to the people represented: see text]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Velazquez_Meninas_key3_s.jpg "Key to the people represented: see text")
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![[Its a 300 pixel by one pixel white mark]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/White300byOne_s.jpg "Its a 300 pixel by one pixel white mark"){kind=small}
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![[Detail showing the red cross of the Order of Santiago painted on the breast of Velázquez]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Velazquez_Cruz_Roja_s.jpg "Detail showing the red cross of the Order of Santiago painted on the breast of Velázquez")
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 from Bidragsyter |
![[Detail of doña María de Sotomayor, showing Velázquez's free brushwork on her dress]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Meninas_detail_s.jpg "Detail of doña María de Sotomayor, showing Velázquez's free brushwork on her dress")
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