Francisco de Goya

The Duchess of Alba raising one arm

Clasificación
The Duchess of Alba raising one arm
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1794 - 1795
Ubicación
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dimensiones
171 x 88 mm
Técnica y soporte
Aguada de tinta china sobre papel
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Attributed work
Titular
Museum Boymans Van Beuningen
Ficha: realización/revisión
10 Mar 2011 / 28 Jun 2023
Inventario
(S.2)
Historia

See Young woman with forehead wearing a small hat.

It comes from the F. Koenings and van Beuningen collections. It is now in the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Análisis artístico

See Young woman with forehead wearing a small hat corresponding to the first drawing of the Sanlúcar Album or Album A.

Isolated figure of a woman raising her left arm, as if in a haughty pose. She hides her right arm under her shawl. Carderera identifies the figure with the Duchess of Alba in these terms: she is standing there, wrapped in a shawl, and raising one arm to give an order.

The authenticity of this drawing, like that on the reverse of the sheet Group of Shepherds, is questioned. Without rejecting Goya's hand outright, Gassier points out that the face is incorrect and notes that the paper used is thinner and has vertical laid edges and horizontal stippling, unlike the rest of the album, although this could be due to the fact that the drawing was made on the flyleaves, at the end or beginning of the album, where the paper is usually different. Sayre doubts its authenticity and suggests that it may be a faithful copy of the original. Mena, for his part, considers it to be an original and considers it to be a possible sketch from life for the portrait of The Duchess of Alba in white, dated 1795.

A copy is in the Lazaro Galdiano Foundation.

Exposiciones
  • Goya: Prophet der Moderne
    Alte Nationalgalerie
    Berlin
    2005
    from July 13th to October 3th 2005. Exhibitied also at the Kunsthistorischemuseum, Vienna, October 18th 2005 to January 8th 2006, consultant editor Manuela B. Mena Marqués
Bibliografía
  • YRIARTE, Charles
    Goya, sa vie, son œuvre
    ParísHenri Plon
    1867
    p. 223
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    De Goya-Tekeningen in het Museum Boymans,
    Bulletin Museum Boymans
    Rotterdam
    1953
    pp. 12-14
  • SAYRE, Eleanor
    Eight Books of Drawings by Goya
    The Burlington Magazine
    London
    1964
    p. 20
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 172, cat. 372
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya: Los álbumes
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1973
    p. 44, cat. A.q [17]
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    El mundo de Goya en sus dibujos
    MadridUrbión
    1979
    pp. 52-53
  • MÜHLE-MAURER, Gudrun and MENA MARQUÉS, Manuela B.
    La duquesa de Alba, «musa» de Goya. El mito y la historia
    MadridEdiciones el Viso, Museo Nacional del Prado
    2006
    pp. 127-128
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