Blind woman.

Blind Woman at the National Museum in Poznan, attributed to Velazquez, depicts a subject that connects to the painter's documented interest in marginalized figures — the dwarfs, jesters, and disabled people of the court whom he painted with remarkable empathy and dignity. Velázquez's uncompromising naturalism and psychological penetration, combined with his revolutionary loose handling of paint in his late work, made him one of the most admired painters in history, his technique anticipating Impressionism and influencing Manet, Sargent, and countless others.

The woman's sightless eyes are rendered without sentimentality or grotesqueness. Velazquez's characteristic objectivity finds the human dignity in disability, presenting the figure with the same serious attention he devoted to kings and popes.