In the background there is a mirror that reflects the upper bodies of the king and queen. Velázquez looks outwards beyond the pictorial space to where a viewer of the painting would stand. Just behind them, Velázquez portrays himself working at a large canvas. The five-year-old Infanta Margaret Theresa is surrounded by her entourage of maids of honour, chaperone, bodyguard, two dwarfs and a dog. Some of the figures look out of the canvas towards the viewer, while others interact among themselves. Sánchez Cantón to depict a room in the Royal Alcazar of Madrid during the reign of King Philip IV of Spain, and presents several figures, most identifiable from the Spanish court, captured in a particular moment as if in a snapshot. It has become one of the most widely analyzed works in Western painting due to the way its complex and enigmatic composition and how Velazquez “sought to build a bridge between art and reality”, between subjects and viewers as well as a declaration of painting as a liberal art. Las Meninas ( Spanish for ' The Ladies-in-waiting ' pronounced ) is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Baroque.
For other uses, see Las Meninas (disambiguation).
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