624 Las Meninas Goyaesques Three dancing Meninas have been stolen from the painting by Velasquez.  However, these transfigured dancers have also inherited the spirit of Goya's ribald peasantry and so their imagery is somewhat coarse and approximate in its realisation. The same courtier resides in the open-door background as in the original painting, and observes the changing times beside the ghostly reflection of the Spanish king and queen