* Oils on canvas
* Madrid
* Philip IV & his Queen are shown within.
* Hung in the personal office of Philip IV. The King is the primary audience. He participates in it by viewing it. (Seeing and being seen)
* The artist's attempt to elevate the painter's status to its highest point. It's also enhanced by the King's presence.
* Equal diginity with the Royal family
* Enhance himself as well as his profession.
* Portray different spaces: the image on canvas, mirror image, optical image, and two painted images.
* Main theme: Himself painting the artwork.
* Pictorial depthes in both directions. (The open doorway beyond the studio, the mirror device, outward glances of the figures)
* Two Rubens painting on the wall as tribuite to Rubens.
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