1599-1660
“An Old Women Cooking Eggs” 1618, one of Diego Velázquez’s masterworks is painted on a plain weave canvas.
Only seven paintings, also from his early Seville perod, are on a canvas with a complex pattern.
At www.labo.pt you will find four of these patterns analysed.
Work in progress….
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/…/old-woman-cooking…