{{Short description|1962 painting by Francis Bacon}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{About|Francis Bacon's 1962 painting|text=For his other works based on Portrait of Innocent X (c. 1650), such as Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), see List of paintings by Francis Bacon}}{{Infobox artwork | title = Study from Innocent X | image = Study from Innocent X.jpg | image_upright = 1.1 | artist = Francis Bacon | year = {{start date|1962}} | type = Oil on canvas | height_metric = 78 | width_metric = 55.75 | metric_unit = cm | museum = Private collection | city = }}
'''''Study from Innocent X''''' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon, from 1962. It is held in a private collection.<ref name=estate>[https://www.francis-bacon.com/artworks/paintings/study-innocent-x Study from Innocent X, 1962], francis-bacon.com</ref> Based on ''Portrait of Innocent X'' (c. 1650) by Diego Velázquez, the work depicts a distorted image of the red-robed Pope Innocent X, sitting on a dark red chair on a platform inside a cuboid cage indicated by thin black lines, standing on a light brownish yellow floor with a curved lighter red wall behind.
It measures {{convert|78|x|55.75|in|cm}}.<ref name=estate/>
Bacon later remade ''Study from Innocent X'', as ''Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971.''
==See also== *List of paintings by Francis Bacon
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