Francisco de Goya

Teresa Sureda

Teresa Sureda
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1804 - 1806
Ubicación
National Gallery of Art. Washington, Washington, United States
Dimensiones
119 x 79 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
The National Gallery of Art
Ficha: realización/revisión
16 Mar 2010 / 16 Jun 2023
Inventario
(1942.3.1)
Historia

Like its companion piece, the portrait of the sitter's husband, Bartolomé Sureda, this work may have come from the collection of Pedro Escat, of Palma de Mallorca, before belonging to the Sureda family in Madrid until 1907. In 1941 it was donated to the museum by Mr and Mrs P.H.B. Frelinghuysen, the work's last owners.

Análisis artístico

Thérèse Louise Chapronde Saint Armand was the maiden name of the French wife of the Majorcan engineer Bartolomé Sureda, whom Goya also painted.

This lady of enlightened bourgeois society, a friend of the painter, is shown seated in an Imperial-style armchair in what is a rather forced posture, in profile and looking directly at the viewer. The blue of her empire-line outfit, as befits a lady of the high bourgeoisie of the period, contrasts with the bright yellow of the armchair. Standing out is the bright white of the collar. Her youthful face is treated with great delicacy, her large eyes and small mouth given prominence, along with the curls that fall perfectly symmetrically over her forehead. She is wearing her thick, dark hair up in a bun, from which a pin is just visible. The subject seems to be emerging from the neutral background of the room, painted in predominantly sombre tones.

Gudiol points out that, from a technical point of view, in this painting Goya had anticipated both impressionist and Japanese tastes, giving relief to colour in a way that would later be seen in works by Manet and in the paintings of some French artists from the last third of the 19th century.

Exposiciones
  • Loan exhibition of Painting by El Greco and Goya
    M. Knoedler and Co.
    New York
    1912
    April 1912
  • Francisco Goya: His Paintings, Drawings and Prints
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    New York
    1936
    from January 27th to March 8th 1936
  • Goya. 250 Aniversario
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1996
    consultant editor Juan J. Luna. From March 29th to June 2nd 1996
  • Goya. La imagen de la mujer
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    2001
    from October 30th 2001 to February 10th 2002. Exhibitied also at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 10th to June 2nd 2002, consultant editor Francisco Calvo Serraller
  • Goya: Prophet der Moderne
    Alte Nationalgalerie
    Berlin
    2005
    from July 13th to October 3th 2005. Exhibitied also at the Kunsthistorischemuseum, Vienna, October 18th 2005 to January 8th 2006, consultant editor Manuela B. Mena Marqués
  • Goya: The Portraits
    London
    2015
Bibliografía
  • CALVO SERRALLER, Francisco (comisario)
    Goya, la imagen de la mujer
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado y Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado
    2001
    pp. 264 y 265 (il.), cat. 71
  • DESPARMET FITZ - GERALD, Xavier
    L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 vols
    París
    1928-1950
    p. 221, cat. 510
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 198, cat. 814
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 337, cat. 534
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. III, p. 159
  • LUNA, Juan J. (Comisario)
    Goya. 250 Aniversario
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1996
    pp. 217 (il.), 394 y 395, cat. 123
  • BRAY, Xavier
    LondonNational Gallery Company
    2015
    pp. 142-145
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