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Portrait of Goya by Vicente López Portaña, c. 1826. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) was a Spanish artist, now viewed as one of the leaders of the artistic movement Romanticism. He produced around 700 paintings, 280 prints, and several thousand drawings.
Francisco de Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain, on 30 March 1746 to José Benito de Goya y Franque and Gracia de Lucientes y Salvador. The family had moved that year from the city of Zaragoza , but there is no record of why; likely, José was commissioned to work there. [ 4 ]
It is signed "Goya in 1795" in the lower right corner. It is in the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid, having been acquired from a private collection. Goya portrayed María Cayetana de Silva a number of other times, notably The White Duchess of the same year and the 1797 Portrait of the Duchess of Alba.
Goya was reluctant to part with the portrait; it remained with him for at least 15 years after it was completed. [2] The painting is composed from white, red, blue and brown pigments, [3] but is mostly, according to Hughes "built around two themes, red and white", with the other major colour being black, represented by her dark curly hair. [2]
Altamira was one of the six dignitaries of the newly formed Banco de San Carlos painted by Goya between 1785 and 1788. In 1786, after painting several portraits of the court, Goya was nominated painter to Charles III, [4] and continued from 1789 as court painter of his successor Charles IV. Altamira hired Goya to paint several family portraits.
La maja vestida (English translation: The Clothed Maja) is an oil painting on canvas created between 1800 and 1807 by the Spanish Romantic painter and printmaker Francisco Goya. It is a clothed version of the earlier La maja desnuda , which was created between 1795 and 1800.
'Last Light,' a recent book by former Time magazine critic Richard Lacayo, draws on six artists' lives to prove that younger isn't always better.
In the years 1783–1784, as a guest of the infanta at Arenas de San Pedro, Goya performed many works for them; including a collective portrait, "The family of Infant don Luis", in which the countess is a girl watching the painter's work. Goya also portrayed a few-year-old Maria Teresa in a stylish little lady outfit and probably also on the ...