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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Philip IV on Horseback 1634-35 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Gaspar de Guzmán on Horseback ca. 1636 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Court Buffoon called El Primo ca. 1636-38 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Diego Velázquez St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit ca. 1633 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
"Because most of Velázquez's work was carried out for the king, it remained in palaces where few people saw it. Not until the upheavals caused by Napoleon's Peninsular War (1804-14) was some of his work dispersed throughout Northern Europe. In the nineteenth-century, his paintings made an enormous impact upon artists, and to the present day Velázquez is remembered as the painter's painter."
– from an essay by Everett Fahy on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Don Baltasar Carlos with a Court Dwarf 1632 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Juana Pacheco (possibly) ca. 1632 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Diego Velázquez Coronation of the Virgin ca. 1635-36 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Diego Velázquez Surrender of Breda ca. 1635 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Diego Velázquez The God Mars ca. 1638 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Diego Velázquez The Needlewoman ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Diego Velázquez The Spinners 1655-60 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Infanta María Teresa ca. 1651-54 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain ca. 1652 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress 1659 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
"Alas! ladies and gentlemen, Art has been maligned. . . . She is a goddess of dainty thought – reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal, selfishly occupied with her own perfection only – having no desire to teach – seeking and finding the beautiful in all conditions and in all times, as did her high priest Rembrandt, when he saw picturesque grandeur and noble dignity in the Jews' quarter of Amsterdam, and lamented not that its inhabitants were not Greeks. As did Tintoret and Paul Veronese, among the Venetians, while not halting to change the brocaded silks for the classic draperies of Athens. As did, at the Court of Philip, Velázquez, whose Infantas, clad in inaesthetic hoops, are, as works of Art, of the same quality as the Elgin marbles."
– James McNeill Whistler, from a lecture known as Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock (1885)
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| Diego Velázquez Mercury and Argus ca. 1659 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |