Francisco de Goya

Mariano Luis de Urquijo

Mariano Luis de Urquijo
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1798 - 1799
Ubicación
The Royal Academy of History, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
128 x 97 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Attributed work
Titular
Royal Academy of History
Ficha: realización/revisión
02 Mar 2010 / 16 Jun 2023
Inventario
(77)
Historia

The Royal Academy of History, in gratitude for the support that Urquijo had provided them in his ministerial role, agreed during their meeting of the 15th August 1798 to commission this portrait of their benefactor, to be hung in the board room.

Análisis artístico

Mariano Luis de Urquijo y Musa (Bilbao, 1768-Paris, 1817) was named a senior official of the State Secretariat and, between 1798 and 1800, held the post of First Secretary of State (Prime Minister) of Charles IV. From a formal point of view, most writers have recognised Goya's authorship in this painting, despite the fact that in the archive of the Royal Academy of History there is a receipt dated 1800 for the realization of a portrait of Urquijo by the painter Francisco Agustín. The cause of this contradiction has still not been clarified. The half-length portrait shows the subject in front of a dark background.

He is wearing a green leather dress coat. His left hand rests on his sabre whilst his outstretched right hand holds a piece of paper. Hanging from his chest are the crosses of the Order of Malta and the Order of Charles III, this latter having been awarded to him in 1798. His smiling expression is heightened by the bright light falling on his face. The quick brushstrokes depict hardly any element in great detail, with the exceptions of the medals and the hilt of the sabre.

Exposiciones
  • Obras de pintores españoles
    Galería Artística de la Corporación de Londres
    London
    1901
    1901
  • Exposición Nacional de retratos
    Madrid
    1902
  • Pinturas de Goya
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1928
    consultant editor Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor. From April to May 1928
  • Francisco de Goya. IV Centenario de la capitalidad
    organized by Ayuntamiento de Madrid and Dirección General de Bellas Artes at the Casón del Buen Retiro
    Madrid
    1961
    consultant editor Valentín de Sambricio
Bibliografía
  • DESPARMET FITZ - GERALD, Xavier
    L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 vols
    París
    1928-1950
    p. 66, cat. 347
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los cuadros de Goya en la Real Academia de la Historia
    Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia Conmemorativo del Bicentenario del Nacimiento de Francisco de Goya
    Madrid
    1946
    p. 12-16
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 189, cat. 689
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 305, cat. 401
  • GLENDINNING, Nigel (Comisario)
    La década de los Caprichos. Retratos 1792-1804
    MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
    1992
    nº 34
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