(Comments here are the Kunsthistorisches Museum curator's remarks on the accompanying plaque): One year before his death Velazquez created this portrait of the eight-year old Infanta as well as that of her little brother Philip Prosper; they were to be his last completed works. That year the pictures went to Emperor Leopold I, who married the Infanta in 1666. The painter's personal style reached its high-point here: shimmering spots of color on wide painting surfaces produce an almost impressionistic effect -- the viewer must stand at a suitable distance to ge the impression of complete, three-dimensional spatiality.