Francisco de Goya

Mariano Goya

Mariano Goya
Datos Generales
Cronología
1827
Ubicación
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, United States
Dimensiones
52 x 41.2 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University
Ficha: realización/revisión
29 Mar 2010 / 16 Jun 2023
Inventario
(67.03)
Inscripciones

Goya á su / nieto en. 1827, / á / los 81 de su / edad ("[From] Goya to his grandson, in 1827, at 81 years of age", on the back of the canvas).

Historia

This portrait was painted during the last trip that Goya made to Madrid from Bordeaux, in the summer of 1827. The last known news of its whereabouts was that it was in the collection of George A. Embricos, in Lausanne (Switzerland). Nowadays this portrait is at Meadows Museum, Museum Purchase with Funds Donated by The Meadows Foundation and a Gift from Mrs. Eugene McDermott, in honor of the Meadows Museum’s 50th Anniversary.

Análisis artístico

Goya's grandson, Mariano (see biographical information in Mariano de Goya), apparently was painted by his grandfather on three occasions, being a young man of twenty-one years of age when the last was made.

In this work we see the bust portrait of a handsome young man dressed in jacket, white shirt and a dark tie which covers his neck all the way up to his chin. His penetrating gaze is fixed almost insolently on the viewer. Of interest is the mark on his left cheek, probably one of the scars that Lafuente Ferrari mentions following his interview with the residents of the town where Mariano died, who swore that his body was covered in scars from the many confrontations that his strong character and bad temper had led him to. The portrait is executed with great agility, especially in the shirt, where the bristles of the brush have left clear marks. The colours are limited to black, white and those used for the flesh tones, as is the case in all of Goya's final portraits.

It was also common for the artist to sign and dedicate these late works, also adding, with a certain pride, his own age. The inscription for this piece is on the rear. Today it is hidden underneath the relining.

Exposiciones
  • Goya
    Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
    The Hauge
    1970
    organized by Ministerio de Estado y Asuntos Culturales and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, July 4th to September 13th 1970. Exhibited also at the Musée de l’Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, October 25th to December 7th 1970, consultant editors Jeannine Baticle and A. B. de Vries
  • Goya: The Portraits
    London
    2015
  • Goya
    Basle
    2021
Bibliografía
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Goya. Antecedentes, Coincidencias e Influencias del arte de Goya
    MadridSociedad Española de Amigos del Arte
    1947
    pp. 295-300
  • ANGULO ÍÑIGUEZ, Diego
    Un retrato de Mariano Goya, por su abuelo
    Archivo Español de Arte
    Madrid
    1948
    pp. 305-307
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    pp. 356, 361, cat. 1664 y p. 353 (il)
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 388, cat. 765
  • ANGELIS, Rita de
    L’opera pittorica completa di Goya
    MilanRizzoli
    1974
    p. 137, cat. 693
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. IV
  • BRAY, Xavier
    LondonNational Gallery Company
    2015
    pp. 205-207
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