Category:Calabazas (Cleveland Museum of Art)

**Portrait of the Jester Calabazas**
	painting by Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660) (1965.15)
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Instance of	painting;
Depicts	man
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support);
Genre	portrait;
Location	Cleveland Museum of Art; Doughty House;
Creator	Diego Velázquez;
Location of creation	Spain;
Collection	Cleveland Museum of Art; Cook collection;
Inventory number	1965.15 (Cleveland Museum of Art);
Inception	1630s (before 1632, after 1631);
Width	106 cm;
Height	175 cm;
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Calabazas (Cleveland Museum of Art)

Diego Velázquez: Portrait of the Jester Calabazas

Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
Description	Spanish painter, artist and visual artist
Date of birth/death	6 June 1599	6 August 1660
Location of birth/death	Seville	Madrid
Work location	Seville (1611–1622); Naples (1630–1631); Rome (1636–1637); Rome (1629–1630); Madrid (1622–1660); Italy (1649–1651); Venice (1629)
Authority file	: Q297 VIAF: 76324831 ISNI: 0000000121400618 ULAN: 500016881 LCCN: n79063457 NLA: 35965890 MusicBrainz: d3f05bb2-a3f6-47e2-88a4-2e0e0f29f330 WGA: v/velazque Open Library: OL78088A GND: 118626426 SELIBR: 207872 SUDOC: 027274020 BNF: 11935168k NDL: 00459630 BIBSYS: 90338945 NKC: jn20000701886 SBN: BVEV031403 BNE: XX865983 CiNii: DA00368289 NLP: a0000001183478 KulturNav: 7e8390f5-0602-4d58-afbe-8dae9baf06ed RKD: 79750 J9U: 987007269303505171 Koninklijke: 070150494 Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural: pessoa532479/diego-velazquez NLK: KAC199628719 WorldCat

Title

Spanish:

Retrato de buffon Juan Calabazas (Calabacillas)

Portrait of the Jester Calabazas

Русский: Портрет шута Хуана Калабасаса (Калабасильяса)

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

Calabazas, a jester in the court of King Philip IV of Spain, had physical and mental disabilities, a state that the artist emphasizes, rather than tries to hide. While the Spanish court prized and doted upon deformed people such as Calabazas, Velázquez transformed their depiction in portraiture. This startling work uses the format of the formal, full-length court portrait to present a type of person generally perceived as marginal, and while the painting baldly holds the jester up as an oddity of nature, the work profoundly humanizes him at the same time.

Date

between 1631 and 1632

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Framed - h:199.30 w:133.10 d:12.70 cm (h:78 7/16 w:52 3/8 d:5 inches)� Unframed - h:175.00 w:106.00 cm (h:68 7/8 w:41 11/16 inches)

Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

	Native name	Cleveland Museum of Art
	Location	Cleveland, United States of America
	Coordinates	41° 30′ 32″ N, 81° 36′ 42″ W
	Established	1913 (Officially opened in 1916)
	Website	www.clevelandart.org
	Authority file	: Q657415 VIAF: 125472356 ISNI: 0000000419367873 ULAN: 500209693 LCCN: n78087650 NLA: 35029027 WorldCat

Cook collection
Location	Doughty House , United Kingdom
Established	1868
Authority file	: Q74149551

Current location

Gallery 212

Accession number

1965.15 (Cleveland Museum of Art)

Place of creation

Spain

Object history

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1965.15

Buen Retiro, inventories of 1701, 1716, 1789, 1794, .and 1808.
Believed by Pantorba to have been clandestinely removed from Spain during the Peninsular War.
Duke ofPersigny, Paris, in 1866; sold in Paris in 1872 for 1,6oo francs.
Maurice Cottier, Paris, from 1872 to at least 1888.
Sir George Donaldson, London, in 1906.
Sir Herbert Cook, Richmond, after 1910.
Sir Francis Cook, Jersey, in 1956; sold at
Christie's, London, 1965, for 170,000 guineas.
Cleveland Museum of Art since 1965.

Exhibition history

Velázquez, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 25 March 2015 / 28 October 2014 - 13 July 2015

References

López-Rey, J. Velázquez. Painter of painters. Catalogue raisonne. Taschen, 1996.

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Media in category "Calabazas (Cleveland Museum of Art)"

The following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total.

Clevelandart 1965.15.jpg 2,089 × 3,400; 1.59 MB
Diego velàzquez, ritratto di jester calabazas, 1631-32 ca. 01.jpg 1,908 × 2,850; 3.24 MB
Diego velàzquez, ritratto di jester calabazas, 1631-32 ca. 02.jpg 2,304 × 3,456; 4.51 MB
Diego Velázquez - Las Calabazas del bufón.jpg 945 × 1,536; 209 KB
Diego Velázquez - Portrait of the Jester Calabazas - 1965.15 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif 4,745 × 7,722; 104.85 MB
Retrato de bufón (Juan Calabazas, Calabacillas), possibly by Diego Velázquez.jpg 679 × 1,125; 86 KB