Las Meninas
Artist
Joel-Peter Witkin
(American, born 1939)
Date1987
Mediumgelatin silver print, toned
DimensionsImage: 14 5/8 × 14 5/8 in. (37.1 × 37.1 cm)
Support: 19 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (50.5 × 40.3 cm)
Mat: 24 × 24 in. (61 × 61 cm)
Support: 19 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (50.5 × 40.3 cm)
Mat: 24 × 24 in. (61 × 61 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from Barbara Erdman, 1988
Object number1988.121.1
DescriptionAn image of the interior of an artist's studio featuring a young girl in the central foreground and a man standing in the doorway in the background. The girl has long curly hair and bangs, she sits in a basket with truncated legs. The basket is sitting on top of a domed wire cage that is on wheels; which gives the appearance that the girl is wearing a large skirt; dressed as the Infant. A dog lays on the floor in the right foreground and a man from the torso up with his arms above his head lays in the left foreground. Scenes of famous paintings decorate the background of the studio.On View
Not on view
