Francisco de Goya

Adoration of the cross (Adoración de la Cruz)

Adoration of the cross (Adoración de la Cruz)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1772 - 1773
Ubicación
Private collection, Barcelona, Spain
Dimensiones
131 x 90 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Attributed work
Titular
Private collection
Ficha: realización/revisión
10 Jun 2010 / 27 Jun 2023
Otros títulos:
Worshipers at the Foot of a Cross (Devotos a los pies de una cruz)
Adoration of the Cross (Adoración de la Cruz)
Historia

Recorded by Gudiol as an original Goya, he dated the work as being from the artist's Zaragoza period. According to the historian, the painting came from a town close to Fuendetodos, and subsequently featured in the Paraíso collection in Zaragoza before later entering into the possession of Guidol himself.

Análisis artístico

The image depicts a group of figures kneeling before the Sacred Cross. A host of angels flies above them. The canvas is semi-circular in shape.

Guidol highlighted the "original chromatic spectrum" of the paintwork and the "abrupt technique" employed, which gives the impression that the artist was working on an urgent commission. It has been suggested that the work was intended as a devotional piece for a private oratory in Fuendetodos, or for the parish church of that town, where Goya had painted the reliquary. Equally, others have proposed the theory that this work was a commission intended to decorate the Church of Santa Cruz in Zaragoza.

The clumsy union of canvas and frame on the left-hand side of the composition is striking: due to the canvas being too short, the artist had to paint directly onto the wood, which even affects the head of one of the worshippers.

Exposiciones
  • La memoria de Goya
    Museo de Zaragoza
    Zaragoza
    2008
    organized by Fundación Goya en Aragón, consultant editor Juan Carlos Lozano López. From February 7th to April 6th 2008
Bibliografía
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 240, cat. 37
  • BELTRÁN, Antonio
    Goya en Zaragoza
    ZaragozaAyuntamiento de Zaragoza
    1971
    p. 155
  • ANGELIS, Rita de
    L’opera pittorica completa di Goya
    MilanRizzoli
    1974
    p. 137, cat. 700
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. I, p. 62 y p. 243 (il.)
  • LOZANO LÓPEZ, Juan Carlos (comisario)
    La memoria de Goya (1828 – 1978)
    ZaragozaGobierno de Aragón, Dpto. de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
    2008
    p. 375, cat. 117
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