Drawing From Velásquez in the Prado

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Francisco Lezcano, sketched in the Prado after Velasquez

A recent dive into a box of old sketchbooks from decades of practice, I came upon a drawing sketched in Madrid on a winter afternoon, long ago. It was drawn in the Prado, copied from the Diego Velásquez painting The Boy From Valleas (Portrait of Francisco Lezcano).

I was in the midst a pilgrimage to the great museums of Europe, armed with rail pass…