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Diego Velázquez

Portrait of the Jester Calabazas

c. 1631–32
oil on canvas
175 × 106 cm (68.9 × 41.7 in)

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Calabazas holds a wind-driven pinwheel and a miniature portrait of a woman, together suggesting the inconstancy of love.

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