# Portrait of Philip IV of Spain on Horseback [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VELAZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 126 x 93 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Philip IV of Spain on Horseback c. 1635 Oil on canvas, 126 x 93 cm Galleria Palatina \(Palazzo Pitti\), Florence Velázquez sent this painting to Florence for a statue to be cast in bronze by Pietro Tacca, who had inherited the workshop of Cosimo I and Eleonora's sculptor Giambologna. In the painting, the slope behind the rider and his mount suggests a support for the nine-ton statue. Tacca, however, achieved the feat of a <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/t/tacca/philip4.html'\)" HREF="/html/t/tacca/philip4.html">free-standing high-rearing horse.</A> ## Related artworks - [A White Horse]() - [A Young Man \(detail\)]() - [Abbess Jerónima de la Fuente]() - [Aesop]() - [Arachne]() - [Breakfast]() - [Cardinal Infante Don Fernando as a Hunter]() - [Christ in the House of Mary and Martha \(detail\)]() - [Christ in the House of Mary and Martha]() - [Christ on the Cross]() - [Court Dwarf Don Antonio el Inglés]() - [Democritus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()