I’ve been thinking about painters and textiles lately. Here are some details of three Velázquez paintings of fabrics and Infanta Margarita.
The white dress with the cross hatch marks was made while he was working on Las Meninas. The blue one, made three years later, was one of the last two paintings Velázquez completed. That is apparently a fur muff in the Infanta’s left hand. TBH I read it as translucent, at least on top, with the silver trim of the dress extending under it, like it was a platter of tinted glass, and I was confounded by it. The pink one also has a vase of flowers, which is after the jump. 1654. Amazing.
These are all in the Kunsthistorischesmuseum in Vienna.