What is Portrait of Juan Pareja?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Retrato de Juan Pareja, by Diego Velázquez.jpg|thumb|300px|''Portrait of Juan Pareja'']] '''''Portrait of Juan Pareja''''' is an [[oil painting]] by [[Diego Velázquez]]. It dates to 1650. It measures 81.3 × 69.9 cm (32 × 27.5 in). It hangs in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in [[New York City]]. Pareja was Velázquez’s slave. He served as an assistant in his workshop. The picture was painted in Rome. It was displayed publicly at the Pantheon in March 1650. The picture gained widespread admiration. Pareja became a painter in his own right. He was freed by Velázquez in 1654.<ref>[http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/110002322?high=on&rpp=15&pg=1&rndkey=20130201&ft=*&pos=7 ''Juan de Parejo] Metropolitan Museum of Art</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City]] [[Category:Paintings by Diego Velazquez]] [[Category:1650s paintings]] {{stub}}