Francisco de Goya

Tadea Arias Enríquez

Tadea Arias Enríquez
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1790
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
190 x 106 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
31 Jan 2010 / 15 Jun 2023
Inventario
(P00740)
Otros títulos:
Tadea Arias de León
Historia

The commission for this portrait may have been the fruit of the close friendship between the sitter's first husband, Tomás de León, and the Duke and Duchess of Osuna. With the pair of crests in the bottom left-hand corner having been identified as those of the two houses of Arias and León, it is feasible that the portrait was made for the first betrothal of the sitter, in 1789. According to Viñaza, Goya received 10,000 reales for this work.

The painting was inherited by the sitter's son in 1855. In 1876 it went to the sitter's grandchildren, who donated it to the Prado Museum in July 1896.

Análisis artístico

Tadea Arias de Enríquez (1770-1855) is depicted in this full-length portrait in an open space, wearing a long dress made of gauze, with long sleeves, in which Goya plays with the transparency of the layers, the folds and the lacework. A wide black ribbon covers her waist and ends in a broad bow at her back. Poking out from the bottom of the dress are her shoes, decorated with silver buckles. She appears to be putting on the glove of her right hand with a movement of her left. Her head is adorned with a spectacular wig of dark curls, stylizing even further the figure of this woman whose beautiful, although slightly inexpressive face, makes us think that Goya may not have known her very well. This would explain why he is unable to show us much of her personality, as the painter often did in his portraits.

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
  • Goya and his times
    The Royal Academy of Arts
    London
    1963
    cat. 66
  • El arte de Goya
    Museo de Arte Occidental de Tokio
    Tokyo
    1971
    from 16th 1971 to January 23th 1972. Exhibited also at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, January 29th to March 15th 1972.
  • Goya
    Palacio de Pedralbes
    Barcelona
    1977
    from April 12th to June 30th 1977
  • 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
  • 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
  • Zaragoza
    2022
Bibliografía
  • VIÑAZA, Conde de la
    Goya, su tiempo, su vida, sus obras
    MadridTipografía de Manuel G. Hernández, Impresor de la Real Casa
    1887
    p. 264, cat. 112
  • DESPARMET FITZ - GERALD, Xavier
    L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 vols
    París
    1928-1950
    p. 73, cat. 355
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 170, cat. 336
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 291, cat. 339
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. II, p. 118
  • GLENDINNING, Nigel (Comisario)
    La década de los Caprichos. Retratos 1792-1804
    MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
    1992
    p. 142, cat. 15
  • LUNA, Juan J. (Comisario)
    Goya. 250 Aniversario
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1996
    pp. 169, (il.) y 359, cat. 81
  • RUYRA DE ANDRADE, Margarita and CALVO RUATA, José Ignacio
    ZaragozaFundación Zuloaga y Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza
    2022
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