Francisco de Goya

Infanta María Josefa of Spain (María Josefa de Borbón y Sajonia, infanta de España)

Infanta María Josefa of Spain (María Josefa de Borbón y Sajonia, infanta de España)
Datos Generales
Cronología
1800
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
72 x 59 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Undisputed work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
07 Mar 2010 / 16 Jun 2023
Inventario
(P00729)
Historia

This work comes from the Royal Collection. In 1814 it was housed in the Royal Palace in Madrid. It entered the Prado Museum's collection some time before 1834, since it appears in the inventory of the Royal Museum for that year, very probably together with the Family of Charles IV (La familia de Carlos IV). It appears for the first time in the Prado's catalogue in the 1872 edition.

Análisis artístico

This is one of the ten sketches of individual figures which Goya produced during his visits to Aranjuez in preparation for the group portrait Family of Charles IV. It is one of five housed in the Prado Museum.

María Josefa Carmela de Borbón (Gaeta, Naples, 1774 - Madrid, 1801) was the daughter of Charles III and María Josefa Amalia of Saxony. Although on arriving in Spain attempts were made to marry her to her uncle, the Infante Louis of Bourbon, she died unmarried a year after this portrait was produced.

In this work she is wearing a scarf as a turban embellished with a feather from a bird of paradise, and diamond earrings. She is wearing the sash of the Order of Noble Dames of Queen María Luisa and the black ribbon of the insignia of the Order of Noble Dames of the Austrian Empire or Starry Cross, which was only received by ladies belonging to the Spanish royal family.

Exposiciones
  • Les chefs-d’œuvre du Musée du Prado
    Musée d’Art et d’Histoire
    Geneva
    1939
    consultant editors Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Pedro Muguruza Otaño. From June to September 1939
  • Von Greco bis Goya
    Haus der Kunst
    Munich
    1982
    From February 20th to April 25th 1982. Exhibited also at the Künstlerhaus, Viena
  • Goya. 250 Aniversario
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1996
    consultant editor Juan J. Luna. From March 29th to June 2nd 1996
  • Francisco de Goya: Maleri, Tegning, Grafikk
    Nasjonalgalleriet
    Oslo
    1996
    from 10th to April 14th 1996
  • 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
  • Goya luces y sombras
    CaixaForum
    Barcelona
    2012
    consultant editors José Manuel Matilla and Manuela B. Marqués. From March 16th to June 24th 2012
Bibliografía
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 197, cat. 785
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 311, cat. 429
  • LUNA, Juan J. (Comisario)
    Goya. 250 Aniversario
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1996
    pp. 202 (il.) y 382, cat. 106
  • CALVO SERRALLER, Francisco (comisario)
    Goya, la imagen de la mujer
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado y Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado
    2001
    p. 252 y 253 (il.), cat. 65
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