The J. Paul Getty Museum announced on September 23, 2026, that it has acquired a recently rediscovered painting by Diego Velázquez, the 17th-century Spanish master. "Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares," painted around 1626, will go on view at the Getty Center this fall in the museum's East Pavilion. It is the first work by Velázquez to enter the collection of a museum on the American West Coast. The bust-length canvas shows Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, the Count-Duke of Olivares, turning toward the viewer in gold-trimmed armor with a red sash. Olivares served as valido, or prime minister, to King Philip IV of Spain, wielding near-absolute power for more than two decades. He was also instrumental in bringing Velázquez to the Spanish court, becoming one of the artist's most frequent subjects. "This work is a landmark addition to Getty's collection, made even more extraordinary by the painting's history as it was not fully known until recently," said Timothy Potts, the museum's director. The painting's journey back into the light is itself remarkable. It was most likely executed as a diplomatic gift to Cardinal Francesco Barberini during his embassy to Madrid in the summer of 1626, and a matching description appears in a 1631 inventory of the Barberini collection in Rome. Believed to have remained in Italy ever since, it was recorded in the Coppellotti collection in Asti for much of the twentieth century, stayed with the family, passed to a private collector in 2025, and was then sold to the Getty. It was identified in 2025 by Salvador Salort-Pons, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, while he was preparing an exhibition of Velázquez's portraits of Olivares; his research was published in the Museo Prado's ARS Magazine, and the Getty dates the work to "about 1626." Davide Gasparotto, the Getty Museum's senior curator of paintings, said the museum was confident in the attribution, which was supported by Guillaume Kientz, director of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library and a Velázquez scholar. The purchase price was not disclosed.