Francisco de Goya

Charles III Issuing the Edict Expelling the Jesuits (Carlos III promulgando el edicto de expulsión de los jesuitas)

Charles III Issuing the Edict Expelling the Jesuits (Carlos III promulgando el edicto de expulsión de los jesuitas)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1767 - 1770
Ubicación
Unknown Collection
Dimensiones
47 x 61 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Attributed work
Ficha: realización/revisión
10 Feb 2010 / 14 Jun 2023
Inventario
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Historia

See The Esquilache Riots.

Análisis artístico

This work has aroused less interest than its companion painting, doubtless due to the fact that it has less of an "eyewitness" quality, the famous "I saw it" which is missing from this work.

The surviving photograph of this work makes its interpretation difficult. The scene features King Charles III with his courtiers, all of whom wear overcoats, sashes and medals, and takes place outdoors, as can be seen from the profiles of the buildings in the background on the left. The monarch is protected by a canopy held up by angels while he listens to a man reading something aloud.

The iconography corresponds to the baroque model: showy and dramatic, the work is characterised by a very goyaesque bravery, genius and abandon, as pointed out by Milicua. The author links the long brushstrokes used for the canopy with the drapes Goya painted on the doors of the reliquary in Fuendetodos, Zaragoza.

José Manuel Pita Andrade dedicated various lines to this pair of paintings (see The Esquilache Riots). His analysis leads him to the conclusion that the meeting between the sovereign and his courtiers was perhaps based on the real State Council called by Charles III in order to get to know his councillors' complaints when faced with the people's uprising during the Esquilache Rots. He therefore proposes a new title for the painting: Charles III Listens to his Councillors during the Esquilache Riots, although he is not entirely convinced.

Exposiciones
  • Exposition d’Art Ancien Espagnol
    organized by La demeure historique en el Hôtel Charpentier
    París
    1925
Bibliografía
  • YRIARTE, Charles
    Goya, sa vie, son œuvre
    ParísHenri Plon
    1867
    p. 149
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    Vida y obras de Goya
    MadridEditorial Peninsular
    1951
    pp. 10-11
  • MILICUA, José
    “Anotaciones al Goya joven”
    Paragone
    1954
    pp. 15-17
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    pp. 74, 82, cat. 18
  • ANGELIS, Rita de
    L’opera pittorica completa di Goya
    MilanRizzoli
    1974
    p. 170, cat. 19
  • SALAS, Xavier de
    Goya
    BarcelonaCarroggio S.A. de Ediciones
    1974
    p. 170, cat. 19
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. I, p. 43 y p. 215 (il.)
  • PITA ANDRADE, José Manuel
    Goya y sus primeras visiones de la historia
    MadridFundación Universitaria Española
    1989
    pp. 15-18
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