Scenes painted by Rubens hang on the back wall in this painting as a bodyguard and a nun converse to the right.
This painting is analyzed in the opening of the book The Order of Things by Michel Foucault. Scenes painted by Rubens hang on the back wall in this painting as a bodyguard and a nun converse to the right. A man can be seen through a doorway at the back of this painting, while a man wearing a red cross and working at an (*) easel is this work's artist himself. A mastiff in this work's foreground is being nudged by the foot of a dwarf as a small girl in a large white dress stands at its center. For 10 points, name this painting showing the Infanta Margarita and the family of Phillip IV of Spain, a work by Diego Velazquez.
This painting is analyzed in the opening of the book The Order of Things by Michel Foucault.
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