Francisco de Goya

Martín Zapater and Clavería (2)

Martín Zapater and Clavería (2)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1790
Ubicación
Museo de Arte de Ponce., San Juan de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Dimensiones
83 x 65 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
Museo de Arte de Ponce
Ficha: realización/revisión
15 Feb 2010 / 15 Jun 2023
Inscripciones

Mi amigo Martín Zapater. Con el/mayor trabajo/te a hecho el/Retrato,/Goya,/1790 ("[To] my friend Martín Zapater. With the greatest care and effort I have made you this portrait, Goya, 1790", in the letter on the table).

Historia

This portrait, begun during Goya's stay in Zaragoza in October 1790 and finished in December of that same year, was bequeathed by Martín Zapater to his great-nephew, Francisco Zapater y Gómez (Zaragoza), later coming to form part of the following collections: Durand-Ruel in Paris, Widener in Elkins Park, Philadelphia, Thyssen in Lugano and Schloss Rohncz. For a time it remained in storage in the Cramer Gallery, in The Hague, subsequently entering a private collection in London and finally arriving at its current home.

Análisis artístico

Martín Zapater y Clavería (Zaragoza, 1747-1803). Farmer, banker and merchant. Ombudsman of Zaragoza City Council. An ennobled member of the bourgeoisie (1789) and an ilustrado, Zapater was also a founding member of the Aragonese Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country (1776) and an academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Luis, Zaragoza (1793).

He was one of Goya's closest friends, as the correspondence between the two men demonstrates. These letters provide a fundamental source of knowledge regarding the life and personality of the artist, who painted Zapater on two occasions (Martín Zapater).

In this first portrait, with its simple composition and economy of means, the sitter is presented in front of a dark, neutral background, half length, seated in a chair with a curved back before a writing desk strewn with papers, one of which contains the painting's inscription. He is wearing a blue dress coat, buttoned up and partially covering a greenish-grey silk waistcoat and a neck tie with frills. In his face, his eyes with their intense, penetrating gaze stand out, as does the prominent nose and the smile flitting around the corners of his mouth. His somewhat gaunt appearance reveals a trace of the illness that Zapater had suffered that same year, and which had obliged him to stay up until August at the sanctuary of Misericordia, near Borja (Zaragoza).

This portrait may have been a gift from Goya to Zapater to commemorate the noble honours awarded to him the previous year.

Exposiciones
  • Goya and his times
    The Royal Academy of Arts
    London
    1963
    cat. 66
  • Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)
    Hamburger Kunsthalle
    Hamburg
    1980
  • Goya dans les collections suisses
    Fundación Pierre Gianadda
    Martigny
    1982
    consultant editor Pierre Gassier. From June 12th to August 29th 1982
  • Goya. La década de Los Caprichos
    Madrid
    1992
    organized by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando sponsored by Fundación Central Hispano, Madrid, consultant editor Nigel Glendinnig. From October 26th 1992 to January 10th 1993
  • Zaragoza
    2017
Bibliografía
  • VIÑAZA, Conde de la
    Goya, su tiempo, su vida, sus obras
    MadridTipografía de Manuel G. Hernández, Impresor de la Real Casa
    1887
    p. 258, cat. CV
  • DESPARMET FITZ - GERALD, Xavier
    L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 vols
    París
    1928-1950
    p. 62, cat. 343
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 99 cat. 290
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 281, cat. 293
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. II, p. 84
  • ANSÓN NAVARRO, Arturo
    Goya y Aragón. Familia, amistades y encargos artísticos
    col. Col. Mariano de Pano y Ruata
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada de Aragón
    1995
    pp. 158-165
  • MENA, Manuela B., MAURER, Gudrun and ALBARRÁN MARTÍN, Virginia
    BilbaoFundación bancaria “la Caixa” y Museo Nacional del Prado
    2018
    p. 188
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