LA’s Getty Museum Acquires Recently Rediscovered Velázquez Painting, a First for a West Coast Museum

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares, a painting that was recently attributed to Diego Velázquez. The acquisition means a Velázquez painting will for the first time be represented in the collection of a West Coast museum.Earlier this year, Detroit Institute of Arts director Salvador Salort-Pons, a scholar on Velázquez who is curating an exhibition on portraits of the Count-Duke of Olivares, published his findings in the Museo Pr