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The Infanta in Vienna

Madrid in 1659 and Vienna in 1916: a Spanish princess's portrait sent to the emperor she was promised to, and the Viennese painter who copied Velázquez's royal portraits there as a student and later said there were only two painters, Velázquez and himself.

Sources: Klimt DatabaseWikipedia

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By the mid-1650s Velázquez was the king's palace chamberlain as well as his painter, working in Madrid's royal palace. The king's daughter Margarita Teresa was five.

Sources: Wikipedia: Diego VelázquezWikipedia: Margaret Theresa of Spain

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Margarita Teresa was promised from childhood to her uncle Leopold, the emperor in Vienna. Portraits of her were sent ahead so he would know his bride; she joined him in 1666.

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As a student in the early 1880s, Gustav Klimt copied Velázquez's royal children in Vienna's imperial collection, and a few years later he painted the staircase of the museum built to house it.

Sources: Klimt DatabaseWikipedia

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