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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1636 painting by Diego Velázquez}}<br />
{{Infobox Painting<br />
|title=Juan Martínez Montañés<br />
|image_file=Velázquez - Juan Martínez Montañés (Museo del Prado, 1635-36).jpg<br />
|artist=[[Diego Velázquez]]<br />
|year=c.1635 <br />
|medium=[[Oil on canvas]]<br />
|height_metric=109<br />
|width_metric=88<br />
|museum=[[Museo del Prado]]<br />
|city=[[Madrid]]<br />
}}<br />
The '''''Portrait of Juan Martínez Montañés''''' is an unfinished c.1635 [[oil on canvas]] portrait of the sculptor [[Juan Martínez Montañés]] by [[Diego Velázquez]]. It was in the [[Spanish royal collection]], and is now in the collection of the [[Prado]] museum in Madrid.<br />
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==History==<br />
Some art historians have suggested that the subject is Velázquez's brother-in-law [[Alonso Cano]], which would date it to Cano's visit to Madrid in 1658, but most agree it depicts Juan Martínez Montañés based on the resemblance to other identified portraits. On that basis, this portrait was probably painted while its subject called on Velázquez during his visit to [[Madrid]] between June 1635 and January 1636. The painting measures {{cvt|109|x|88|cm|in}}. <br />
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Montañés was called to the Spanish royal court in Madrid in 1635 to make a clay bust of [[Philip IV of Spain]] as the [[modello]] for the Florentine sculptor [[Pietro Tacca]] to make a bronze [[equestrian statue]] of Philip which is now in the [[Plaza de Oriente]] in Madrid. The portrait shows the sculptor working on the bust of the king, shaping the clay with a stick, although the painting is unfinished and the bust is only shown in outline. At a time when artists were often seen as craftsman, Velázquez enhances the sculptor's social status by depicting him in formal black dress with white collar and cuffs, like a nobleman. <br />
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Like Cano and Velázquez, Montañés lived and worked in [[Seville]], but he was from the previous artistic generation: at the time of the portrait, Velázquez was 36, but Montañés was 67. Montañés was well known to Velázquez, as Velázquez's master and father-in-law, [[Francisco Pacheco]], had painted many sculptures made by Montañés. <br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of works by Diego Velázquez]]<br />
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==References==<br />
* [https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/juan-martinez-montaes/abe14cb7-bbb6-483a-b192-c2bb6d7b1a69 ''Juan Martínez Montañés''], Museo del Prado<br />
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=wSW0EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 "Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez"], David Pullins, Vanessa K. Valdés, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023, ISBN 1588397564, p.76<br />
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