- Cronología
- 1789
- Ubicación
- Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 126 x 94 cm
- Técnica y soporte
- Oil on canvas
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Undisputed work
- Titular
- Colección Altadis
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 31 Jan 2010 / 14 Sep 2022
Goya was commissioned to paint this portrait, together with its companion piece, Carlos IV, by the workers of the Royal Tobacco Factory of Seville for the visit of Charles IV and his wife to the city in 1789. Both works formed part of a temporary structure called the Temple of Fame, created especially for the occasion. At the end of the 19th century, the paintings were moved to Madrid, the property of the Tabacalera Española tobacco firm, and entered the Altadis collection in 1999. Today they are on temporary loan to the Archive of the Indies in Seville.
This is one of the replicas that Goya made of the portraits of King Charles IV and Queen María Luisa de Parma to mark the coronation of December 1788.
In this painting, which is very similar to another belonging to the Prado Museum, Queen María Luisa is shown standing, wearing an elegant blue silk dress, very closely fitted at the waist and decorated with gold needlework. On her chest she wears the Cross of the Order of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (the Starry Cross). In her right hand she is holding a closed fan. On her head she wears a striking headdress, made from gauzes and feathers in the French style. The background is decorated with greenish-coloured drapery, arranged diagonally, and on the table to the left rest the crown and the ermine robe, the royal symbols.
-
GoyaKoninklijke Musea Voor Schone Kunsten Van BelgiëBrussels1985consultant editor Luis González Seara. From October 26th to December 22nd 1985cat. 12
-
Goya: retratos para la Real Fábrica de Tabacos de SevillaSala de Exposiciones del Banco Bilbao VizcayaMadrid1985.
-
GoyaNationalmuseumStockholm1994consultant editors Juan J. Luna and Görel Cavalli-Björkman. From October 7th 1994 to January 8th 1995cat. 13
-
Goya en las colecciones españolasSala de Exposiciones del BBVAMadrid1995consultant editor Juan J. Luna. From December 14th 1995 to February 17th 1996cat. 13
-
GoyaGalleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica di Palazzo BarberiniRoma2000consultant editors Lorenza Mochi Onori and Claudio Strinati. From March 18th to June 18th 2000
-
Goya: Prophet der ModerneAlte NationalgalerieBerlin2005from July 13th to October 3th 2005. Exhibitied also at the Kunsthistorischemuseum, Vienna, October 18th 2005 to January 8th 2006, consultant editor Manuela B. Mena Marquéscat. 24
-
Goya e ItaliaMuseo de ZaragozaZaragoza2008organized by the Fundación Goya en Aragóna, consultant editor Joan Sureda Pons. From June 1st to September 15th 2008
-
El último viaje de la fragata Mercedes. Un tesoro cultural recuperadoMuseo Arqueológico NacionalMadrid2014Exhibition celebrated form June 12th to November 30th 2014, organized by Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, Ministerio de Defensa y Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
-
Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 98, cat. 286
-
Goya: retratos para la Real Fábrica de Tabacos de Sevilla. Madrid, 1985.Madrid1985
-
Goya en las colecciones españolasMadridBanco Bilbao-Vizcaya1995pp. 74 y 75 (il.), cat. 13
-
Las parejas reales de Goya. Retratos de Carlos IV y María Luisa de ParmaZaragozaReal Academia de Nobles y Bellas Artes de San Luis1997Vol. I, p. 183 (il.), Vol. II, p. 293
-
Goya e Italia, 2 vols.ZaragozaFundación Goya en Aragón y Turner2008cat. 17, p. 25
