Datos Generales
- Cronología
- 1799
- Ubicación
- Private collection
- Dimensiones
- 63 x 52 cm
- Técnica y soporte
- Oil on canvas
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Undisputed work
- Titular
- Private collection
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 12 Jun 2010 / 16 Jun 2023
- Inventario
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Historia
In 1920, this work was sold at auction together with the Bardac collection at the Petit Gallery, Paris. It belonged to the Wildenstein collection in New York.
Análisis artístico
This is probably a preparatory study for the finished portrait. María Luisa de Parma's head is here covered with a hat and is facing the viewer, with a slight smile on her face.
Thanks to the queen's correspondence with Manuel Godoy, we know that Goya worked on this sketch between the 5th and the 9th of October, and that in order to achieve the right angle for what was to be an equestrian portrait the queen posed for the artist "...perched on a platform five or six steps up... wearing hat, scarf and cloth dress...".
Exposiciones
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Les chefs-d’œuvre du Musée du PradoMusée d’Art et d’HistoireGeneva1939consultant editors Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Pedro Muguruza Otaño. From June to September 1939cat. 66
Bibliografía
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 196, cat. 778
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BarcelonaPolígrafa1970vol. I, p. 309, cat. 423
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Las parejas reales de Goya. Retratos de Carlos IV y María Luisa de ParmaZaragozaReal Academia de Nobles y Bellas Artes de San Luis1997cat. 37, p. 46
