Francisco de Goya

Antonia Zárate

Antonia Zárate
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1811
Ubicación
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
Dimensiones
71 x 58 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
The State Hermitage Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
13 Apr 2010 / 16 Jun 2023
Inventario
(GA10198)
Historia

According to Calvo Serraller, this work may have been commissioned by Antonio Gil de Zárate, the subject's son, upon his mother's death in 1811, with Goya using the other portrait that he had supposedly painted of her several years before as his model (Antonia Zárate).

This painting was in the Paris collection of Gimpel et Wildenstein before entering that of Mr. Howard B. George, New York. Armand Hammer donated it to the Russian museum in 1972.

Análisis artístico

Doña Antonia Zárate was born in Barcelona in 1775.

She was a famous theatre actress who used to perform in Madrid. Her husband, Bernardo Gil, was a singer, as well as a comic actor.

This half-length portrait shows the subject before a dark background, dressed in an overcoat fastened with a single golden button, leaving much of the woman's generous bust visible. Her head is covered by a white headscarf, with a semi-sheer sash which has been tied loosely around her neck.

Her face, with its striking large eyes, is looking out at the viewer with a certain melancholy air. As in the portrait of 1805-06, some of her dark hair has fallen down over her forehead in two large curls.

The transparency of the fabrics of the dress that she is wearing under the overcoat have been executed with great delicacy and mastery.

According to Gudiol, the flat background shows neither faults nor any light or spatial effects, its dark hue serving as a contrasting factor to give intensity to the shape of the figure and to suggest real space

Exposiciones
  • Goya 1900
    Ministerio de Instrucción Pública and Bellas Artes
    Madrid
    1900
    consultant editors Aureliano de Beruete, Alejandro Ferrant, Marqués de Pidal and Ricardo Velázquez. May 1900
  • Goya. La imagen de la mujer
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    2001
    from October 30th 2001 to February 10th 2002. Exhibitied also at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 10th to June 2nd 2002, consultant editor Francisco Calvo Serraller
Bibliografía
  • DESPARMET FITZ - GERALD, Xavier
    L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 vols
    París
    1928-1950
    p. 83, cat. 365
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 262, cat. 893
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 345, cat. 561
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. III, p. 155
  • CALVO SERRALLER, Francisco (comisario)
    Goya, la imagen de la mujer
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado y Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado
    2001
    pp. 276 y 277 (il.), cat. 77
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