The Immaculate Conception
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About this painting
This painting has a companion, and the companion is looking at it. In Velazquez's Saint John on Patmos, the evangelist gazes up at his vision of the woman clothed with the sun — and the vision he is seeing is this canvas. Moon under her feet, twelve stars, hands clasped, eyes down. Pacheco, his teacher, prescribed a girl of twelve or thirteen with her golden hair loose. X-rays show the blue mantle once swept across her legs; Velazquez painted it out.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, 'The Immaculate Conception', NG6424, 1618-19; read 2026-08-27.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,226 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.