Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X is a 1953 painting by the artist Francis Bacon. The work shows a distorted version of the Portrait of Innocent X painted by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez in 1650. The work is one of the first[1] in a series of around 50[2] variants of the Velázquez painting which Bacon executed throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.[3][4] The paintings are widely