🔎 Clue 3: The Composition
The artist changed the Count Duke’s clothing from stately attire to a military uniform, which is consistent with Velázquez’s practice during his early years in the Spanish court.
🖼️ Gaspar de Gusman, Count of Olivarez, about 1626, Paulus Pontius. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008, 2018.839.107
ALT Another portrait of the Count-Duke, an engraving by Paulus Pontius, which is credited as "after" Velázquez. The portrait shows the subject in the same clothing and with the same expression and features.